64 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



tree, Adansonia gregorii, showing aboriginal carved designs, 

 from North- Western Australia. 



By Mr. A. Coles. — Specimen of Little Falcon, Falco lunu- 

 latus. 



By Miss K. Cowle. — Photographs, botanical and rock speci- 

 mens, &c., from Mount Roland, Tasmania, in illustration of her 

 paper. 



By Mr. C. French, jun. — Life-history of Longicorn beetle, 

 Strongylurus cretifer, which is very destructive to the Native 

 Cherry trees in Victoria ; also, aboriginal stone knives (polished), 

 from Swan Hill, Hamilton, Heidelberg, &c. 



By Mr. J. H. Gatliff. — Marine shells from Victoria, including 

 Modiola victorice, Prit. and Gatl. (type) ; Zenatia victorice, Prit. 

 and Gatl. (type) ; Chioiie strigosa, Lamk. ; C. scallarina, Lamk. ; 

 and 41 additional Victorian marine shells referred to in his 

 paper. 



By Mr. A. D. Hardy. — Two specimens of Hepaticse — Riccia 

 natans, a floating plant, from BuUeen, and Fimbriaria australis 

 (in fruit), a terrestrial plant, from Malvern. 



By Mr. J. A. Kershaw, F.E.S. — Case of Australian Lycaenid 

 butterflies, including type of Miletus meleagris, Waterh. 



By Mr. F. M. Reader. — Dried specimens of Brachycome 

 ciliaris, Less., var. glandulosa, Benth., new for Victoria ; and 

 specimens of the rare coniferous shrub, Pherosphcera filzgeraldi, 

 F. v. M., hitherto found at the Katoomba Falls only. Collected 

 by the Rev. W. VV. Watts at Leura Falls, Blue Mountains, 

 N.S W. 



By Mr. F. Spry. — Case of Victorian Lycsenid b\itterflies. 



By Mr. J. Tarrant. — Specimens of the bark of the Paper-barked 

 Ti-tree, Melaleuca squarrosa, Donn., Gippsland. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



SOME COMPARISON OF THE ALPINE FLORA OF 

 AUSTRALIA AND EUROPE. 



By G. Weindorfer. 

 {Read he/ore the Field Nuturalists' Chih of Victoria, I3th July, 1903. 

 The remarks which I purpose oftering under the above title are 

 based upon observations of the Alpine flora of Victoria and the 

 Eastern Alps of Europe, the altitudes of which are practically 

 alike. 



Whoever has once ascended a mountain cannot fail to liave 

 observed how the vegetation gradually changes, so that the 

 tourist presently finds himself amidst new and strange surround- 

 ings, in which the vegetation of the lowlands is replaced by one 

 of a totally different appearance. It is well known that in the 



