58 THE VICTOKIAN NATURALIST. 



Alg?e of Victoria. After his retirement from the Education De- 

 partment in 1894, he was appointed lecturer on botany at the 

 Training Institute for School Teachers and the Veterinary 

 College, when he published a student's help called " Botany 

 Notes." This consisted of his own drawings, reproduced by a 

 copying process, supplemented with copious explanatory notes. 

 His work, of whatever nature — whether as lay reader in the 

 Anglican Church, as lionorary secretary of the Head Teachers' 

 Association, or as science teacher— always commanded his best 

 efforts, with the result that he made numbers of friends, who will 

 long remember him as one who seemed to live only to serve his 

 fellow man. During late years he had to restrain himself some- 

 what, and when it was found necessary for him, early in the year, 

 to take a complete rest it was hoped that in a few months he 

 would be restored to his accustomed vigour ; but it was not to be, 

 and he passed peacefully away on the loth July, at the age of 69, 

 leaving a widow and grown-up family of sons and daughters, 

 several of whom have gained University degrees, while one, Miss 

 Constance Tisdall, B.A., having her father's tastes, is the autlior 

 of " Australian Nature Stories for Children," noticed in these 

 pages about a year ago. 



A BOTANICAL TRIP TO MOUNT ERICA, BAW BAW. 



By C. S. Sutton, M.B. 

 {Read before the Field Naturalists' Cluh of Victoria, Sth May, 1905.) 

 On New Year's Eve (Saturday, 31st December, 1904) three of 

 us, Messrs. H. B. Williamson, G. Weindorfer, and myself, went 

 to Moe (80 miles) by the afternoon Gippsland train, and before 

 leaving the station arranged with Mr. Andy Templeton to be 

 driven thj following morning to Upper Moondarra, a distance of 

 19 miles, whence we were to scale Mount Erica, the nearest peak 

 of the Baw Baw Range. 



Accordingly, early on Sunday morning we set off in a three- 

 horse waggon along the Walhalla road, crossing in all five times 

 the track of the Moe-Walhalla line, now in course of construction, 

 and also, in turn, the main drain of the Moe Swamp, the Latrobe 

 — a fine stream, where the notes of the Bell-bird were dinned into 

 our ears — the Tangil, and the Tyers. 



Nothing of much botanical interest was seen so far, but Cassinia 

 aculeata, HeAichrysum ferruc/ineum, Bursaria spinosa, Prostan- 

 thera lasiantha, Goodenia ovata, Dipodium jnmctatuin, Melaleuca 

 squarrosa and ericifolia, Leptottpermum scoparium, Baiiera rubi- 

 oides, Persoonia jnniperina, G omp>holobii(,m huegelii,and Dampiera 

 stricta were still in bloom, and Hakea sericea in full flower. At 

 the Tyers, a fine, quick, clear stream, bordered by a dense scrub, 

 while the horses were being watered at the Cecil Inn, we break- 

 fasted, and afterwards gatliered Leptosperinum grandifloruni, 



