tbe Uktorian Daturalisi 



Vol. XIX.— No. 10. FEBRUARY 5, 1903. No. 230. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



The ordinary monthly meeting of the Club was held in the Royal 

 Society's Hall on Monday evening, 19th January, 1903. The 

 president, Mr. T. S. Hall, M.A., occupied the chair, and about 65 

 members and visitors were present. 



REPORTS. 



Mr. O. A. Sayce reported on the Club's excursion to Beaumaris 

 on Saturday, 13th December, at which about 13 members 

 attended, and spent the afternoon searching the locality for 

 specimens of interest. Unfortunately the tide was not favourable j 

 still a number of interesting specimens were collected and 

 preserved for further examination, though nothing new or very 

 striking was noticed. 



The excursion to Greensborough on 20th December was 

 abandoned on account of rain, and that to Bulleen on 17th 

 January on account of intense heat. 



The hon. librarian reported the receipt of the following 

 donations to the library : — " Memoirs of the Royal Society of 

 South Australia," vol. ii., part i, "The Cretaceous Mollusca of 

 South Australia and Northern Territory," by R. Etheridge, jun., 

 from the Society ; The Umu, vol. ii., part 3, January, 1903, from 

 the Australasian Ornithologists' Union ; Nature Notes, December, 

 1902, from the Selborne Society, London; and Knowledge, 

 December, 1902, from the proprietors; and that five volumes 

 of the Cambridge Natural History — viz.. Mammalia, Birds, 

 Molluscs, Amphibia, and Insects, part 2— had been purchased. 



The chairman announced that the Committee had ordered 

 several other text-books. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



On a ballot being taken, Messrs. W. H. A. Rogers, National 

 Bank, Collins-street, Melbourne, J. M. Spark, Isabella-street, 

 Malvern, and J. F. d'Oliveyra, " Kooyong," Kooyong Koot-road, 

 Hawthorn, were elected members of the Club. 



PAPERS. 



I. By Mr. D. Le Souef, C.M.Z.S., entitled " Records of 

 Snakes Casting Their Skins." This was a short paper, in which 

 the author recorded the dates certain species of snakes cast their 

 skins, while kept in confinement at the ^Melbourne Zoological 



