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Professor Ewart said that, while we owed a debt of gratitude 

 to the Minister for his concession, the Club ought to regard it as 

 an encouragement to seek for more. The present arrangement 

 would be satisfactory so long as Mr. Mackay is in power, but 

 with an unsympathetic Minister we might find matters very 

 different. So long as timber-cutting rights are granted, there is 

 considerable danger of damage being done to the park. The 

 matter is rendered more difficult owing to the fact that more than 

 one department is concerned. 



Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L.S., made some remarks on a trip by 

 himself and some friends at Christmas, the object in view being 

 to land on Wilson's Promontory at Sealers' Cove. Owing to 

 unfavourable weather, however, a landing could not be effected. 

 On the return journey from the Lakes the steamer took shelter 

 at Sealers' Cove, and Mr. Bainbridge, one of the party, was able 

 to spend part of a day on shore. He stated that he saw a wide 

 valley well suited for kangaroos and wallabies, with the usual rich 

 vegetation in the gullies, but most of the country was exceedingly 

 rough. Wild dogs, and what was thought to be a Lyre-bird, were 

 seen. 



PAPERS. 



By Mr. G. A. Keartland, entitled " Notes on the Plumage of 

 Australian Parrots." 



The author briefly referred to the many difficulties which beset 

 the young collector when dealing with this group of birds, owing 

 to the fact that some species maintain almost the same plumage 

 throughout life, while in other species the young and the adult 

 forms might be regarded by the novice as totally distinct birds. 



An interesting discussion followed, in which Messrs. F. G. A. 

 Barnard, A. D. Hardy, A. H. E. Mattingley, and Professor Ewart 

 took part. Mr. Keartland replied fully to the various questions 

 raised. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 



Mr. J. p. M'Lennan contributed a note on the question of 

 whether both male and female flowers were borne on the same 

 plant in the Casuarinas. 



Professor A. J. Ewart referred at length to specimens and 

 illustrations of the Onion Weed exhibited by him. Messrs. F. G. 

 A. Barnard and A. D. Hardy also spoke on the subject, the former 

 mentioning that some years ago he had seen an apparently much 

 larger flowered form than that usually seen, at Wildwood, between 

 Sunbury and Bulla. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. F. G. A. Barnard. — Terrestrial Amphipods, Talitrus, sp., 

 from Willsmere, Kew ; flowers and fruit of Mountain Ash, 

 Panax sambucifolhcs ; and flowers of Kurrajong, Brachychiton 

 populneus, grown at Kew. 



