August, 1907.] THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 67 



March last, among tlie birds on the backwaters of the Goulburn 

 River, near Nagambie, together with a Hst of sixty-seven species 

 met with. 



Mr. G. Coghill congratulated the autlior on his interesting 

 notes, and remarked that members would no doubt be glad to 

 know of this locality as deserving of further research. 



Mr. G. A. Keartland remarked that the note regarding the 

 movements of the Bee-eaters, Jlerops ornatus, during the time of 

 the year mentioned was very interesting. 



3. By Professor A. J. Ewart, D.Sc , Ph.D., entitled "On 

 Supposed New Records for Victorian Plants." 



The author dealt with a list of plants which had been published 

 in the Club's journal in 1889 as new records for Victoria or its 

 districts, but which, he stated, had nearly all been previously 

 recorded. He made special reference to the confusion created 

 by the publication of such misleading statements, and the 

 difficulty of ascertaining their correctness in the absence of 

 specimens of the plants dealt with. With a view to preventing 

 to a great extent such mistakes, he thought it desirable that the 

 Club should adopt a rule, such as he had already given notice 

 of, providing that at least one specimen of each plant exhibited 

 at the Club's meetings or recorded in the Victorian Naturalist as 

 new to science, to the State, or its districts, should become the 

 (property of the Club, to be deposited for reference either in the 

 Club's rooms or in the National Herbarium, and that unless this 

 condition be fulfilled no record should be accepted for publica- 

 tion, except by a resolution of the committee. 



In the discussion which followed, Mr. F. G. A. Barnard said 

 that he had often feared that some of the specimens exhibited 

 at the Club's meetings, and recorded as new by the various 

 exhibitors, would prove not to be so when the proceedings of 

 various societies were more closely examined, and pointed out 

 that the Club was not in any way responsible for the record, it 

 being entirely the statement of the exhibitor. 



Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L S., said that he could not understand 

 the errors attributed to Mr. Walter, as he had always been most 

 painstaking when giving information to members of the Club, 

 many of whom were deeply indebted to him for the naming of 

 their plants, which in many cases was done by comparison with 

 specimens from his (Mr. Walter's) herbarium named by the late 

 Baron von Mueller. 



Messrs. F. Pitcher and D. Best spoke in the same strain. 



Mr. T. S. Hall, M.A., referred to the difficulties in the way of 

 carrying out Prof. Evvart's proposal. 



Prof. Ewart, in replying to the remarks, stated he was pleased 

 the question had excited so much interest. 



