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cut down, they must retain their principal characteristics for 

 many a day, and I can thoroughly recommend anyone wanting 

 an outing of a totally different character to anything about 

 Melbourne to walk through from Pirron Yallock to Pom- 

 borneit, or vice versa, either in spring or autumn, and by all 

 means to take a camera with them. 



My tour was finished by walking on to Colac, about g miles 

 further, and having another look at the Warrions across the 

 lake before catching the evening train for Melbourne. The 

 holiday was one containing so much novelty, and sights so 

 different from what I expected, that I hope at no distant date 

 to renew my acquaintance with this interesting district . 



The Preservation of Specimens. — How to save one"s col- 

 lections from the depredations of insect foes is alike the worry 

 of the entomologist and the botanist, &c. In a lecture given 

 at the February meeting of the New South Wales Naturalists' 

 Club, and recorded in the Australian Naturalist for April, Mr. 

 T. Steel, F.L.S., relates his experiences in attempting to keep 

 natural history specimens unharmed. He states that naphtha- 

 line and corrosive sublimate dissolved in spirits are both unsatis- 

 factory, and that he finds, after many trials, that a saturated 

 solution of white arsenic in methylated spirits gives the best 

 results. Specimens in cabinet drawers may be poisoned by 

 means of a drop tube. Care should be taken of the solution, 

 and articles used for its manipulation, as it is highly poisonous. 

 Collectors adopting this suggestion might report results in the 

 course of a few months. 



"The Aquarium in Australia." — The first number (July, 

 1911) has reached us of The Aquarium in Australia. It is 

 published by the Aquarium Society of New South Wales, and 

 edited by Mr. D. G. Stead, Naturahst to the Board of Fisheries 

 of New South Wales. The Aquarium Society has now been in 

 existence for some four years, and naturally desires to record 

 its doings and experiences. The society is not confined to the 

 study of fish, as might at first be supposed, but interests itself 

 in all forms of aquatic life belonging to either fresh or salt water. 

 The number under notice contains an interesting article by Mr. 

 R. J. Tillyard, M.A., F.E.S., on "The Dragon-Flies of Aus- 

 tralia." 



