214 Field Naturalists' Chih— Proceedings. [/'AprU^'' 



Forests Department, Melbourne, was duly elected an ordinary 

 member, and Master Carl Glance, 72 High-street, St. Kilda, an 

 associate member of the Club. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



There being no other nomination, Mr. W. G. Mackintosh was 

 declared elected to the vacant position of assistant secretary 

 and librarian. 



PAPERS READ. 



1. By Messrs. G. A. Waterhouse, B.Sc, F.E.S., and G. Lyell, 

 F.E.S., entitled " Descriptions of and Notes on Some Australian 

 Hesperidse." 



The authors described as new species, under the names of 

 Anisynta tillyardi and Ocybadistes affinis, two species of " skipper " 

 butterflies recently captured at Ebor, Clarence River district. 

 New South Wales, and Kuranda, Queensland, respectively, and 

 gave some notes on Hesperilla dominula, Ploetz, also from the 

 Clarence River district. Two butterflies which had been 

 described in the Victorian Naturalist for August, 1903 (page 56), 

 as varieties of Trapezites maheta, Hew., were raised to specific 

 rank as T. phigalioides, Waterhouse, and T. iacchoides. Water- 

 house, respectively. 



2. By Dr. C. S. Sutton, entitled " Further Notes on the 

 Sandringham Flora." 



The author said that through the kind assistance of several 

 correspondents he was able to add a few species to his list of the 

 Sandringham flora published in the Victorian Naturalist for May 

 last, and remarked that the area covering a similar flora to that 

 of Sandringham was much larger than he had at first considered. 

 He also gave a resume of the methods proposed by Clements in 

 a recent work, "Research Methods in CEcology," for estimating 

 and recording the plants of a given area. 



Dr. T. S. Hall, M.A., in congratulating the author on the 

 attention he had given to a very interesting subject, remarked 

 that his former paper was one of the most important read before 

 the Club. He referred to the difficulty of following Schimper 

 and other writers on plant cecology owing to the number of 

 technical words used, and which were often unexplained by the 

 text, and demonstrated by means of a blackboard sketch the 

 reasons for isolated patches of Sandringham plants, showing the 

 relations between plants and geology. 



Mr. F. G. A. Barnard considered that the Sandringham flora 

 once occupied a small portion of Kew, and mentioned having 

 collected the fern Gleichenia circinata near the Rosstown railway 

 at Glen Huntly. 



•^ NATURAL HISTORY NOTE. 



Mr. C. J. Gabriel referred to the fact that Messrs. Cox and 



