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bourne. — Flowers of six species of early flowering acacias — 

 viz., A. alata, R. Br., Western Australia; A. cardiophylla, A. 

 Cunn., New South Wales; A. elongata, Sieber, Victoria, New 

 South Wales, and Queensland ; A. Jonesii, F. v. M. and Maiden, 

 New South Wales : A. leprosa, Sieber, Victoria and New South 

 Wales; and A. speciahilis, A. Cunn., New South Wales and 

 Queensland. 



'" By Mr. J. Stickland. — Old leaves covered with pine pollen, 

 carried by wind and deposited in garden at Hawthorn (under 

 microscope). ■ 



By Mr. J. R. Tovey. — A seedling plant of Blue Gum, 

 Eucalyptus globulus. Lab., found growing in a small crack, about 

 half an inch wide, between the asphalted footpath and the 

 foundation of a building in Park-street, South Yarra. The only 

 blue-gum tree growing near the spot is fully forty yards away, 

 on lower ground, consequently the seed was probably trans- 

 ported by wind, or the agency of birds. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



Note. — In last month's " Proceedings " the word " Eocene," 

 in line 9, p. 67, was misreported, and should read " Miccene." 



A Handy Victorian Guide. — A useful, well illustrated 

 booklet of 260 pages (oblong), under the title of " The Country 

 Hotel and Boarding-house Guide and Tourists' Handbook,'' 

 has recently been published by Lake and Sons, Melbourne. 

 It contains full information as to the principal hotels and 

 boarding-houses, and the cost of living at the various tourist 

 resorts of the State. Copies can be olitained free on applica- 

 tion at the Victorian Government Tourist Bureau, Collins- 

 street. 



" A Brief Review of the Fisheries of New South 

 Wales." — The presidential address to the New South Wales 

 Naturalists' Club of Mr. D. G. Stead, who is naturalist to the 

 Board of Fisheries of New South Wales, has been issued as a 

 useful booklet of 30 pages, with 17 plates, by the Department 

 of Fisheries of that State. The author deals with fishes, 

 crustaceans (giving useful notes about crayfish, crabs, and 

 prawns), molluscs (the oyster harvest amounts to 20,000,000 

 annually, a great part of which is due to artificial cultivation), 

 cetaceans (dolphin-fishing is carried on for the sake of the teeth, 

 which are sold to firms trading with the Solomon and other 

 Pacific islands to be used as currency), sponges, and sea- weeds. 

 Regarding the two last groups, the author considers that, 

 following the lines of other countries, great advance must 

 shortly take place in their economic development. The seven- 

 teen plates contain about double that number of figures, and 

 are exceedingly good. 



