62 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



B.Sc, a former president, and now an honorary member of the 

 Club, present at the meeting, and extended him a hearty welcome. 

 In responding, Mr. Lucas said he was pleased to find that his 

 short stay in Victoria included a meeting of the Club, and that 

 though a resident of Sydney the doings of the Club were not 

 altogether unknown to him, owing to the receipt of the Club's 

 journal. 



PAPERS. 



i. By Mr. VV. H. Ferguson, entitled " Evidences of the 

 Antiquity of Man in Victoria." 



The author described some recent finds of aboriginal imple- 

 ments in the valley of the Hopkins, near Wickliffe, and of the 

 Wannon, at Glen Thompson. A large number of flint knives 

 and tomahawks, millstones, chips of flint, &c, were found in 

 conjunction with bits of mussel shell and a few bones, proving, 

 in the writer's opinion, the existence of pre-historic man in 

 Victoria. The paper was illustrated by diagrams and specimens. 

 Some discussion ensued, in which Messrs. G. Sweet, F.G.S., and 

 T. S. Hall, M.A., took part. While doubt was expressed about 

 the age of the deposits, it was agreed that the evidence brought 

 forward was of the nature required, and it was also pointed out 

 that, although the dingo had usually been supposed to have been 

 introduced by man, its remains have recently been found in 

 association with those of extinct animals, carrying its existence 

 back to the Pleistocene division of the Tertiary period. 



2. By Mr. H. T. Tisdall, F.L.S., entitled "Notes on the 

 Genus Calocera," with reference to a supposed new species. 



The author briefly defined the characteristics and position of 

 the genus Calocera, and gave a detailed description of the new 

 species, specimens of which were found by two young boys 

 during the Club excursion to Sassafras Gully on last Queen's 

 Birthday, and stated that specimens had been sent to Dr. Cooke, 

 of London, for naming. In discussing the paper Mr. D. 

 M'Alpine, F.C.S., urged the local working out and naming of 

 such additions to our fungus flora. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 



Mr. H. Grayson contributed a note on test rulings for micro- 

 scopic objectives, and stated that lines up to over 100,000 per 

 inch had been successfully ruled by himself on prepared slides. 



Mr. A. H. S. Lucas, M.A., B.Sc, brought under the notice of 

 the meeting two aboriginal curiosities from Central Queensland 

 — firstly, a carved " letter-stick " used for tribal intercourse ; and, 

 secondly, a humming top made from a gourd by fixing a stick 

 through it for a spindle and burning holes in the sides with a 

 firestick in order to produce sound, being the first instance known 

 of a toy among the aboriginals. 



