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Promontory, and said that the geological portion of the report, 

 together with a list of the mollusca, was in the hands of Mr. G. 

 B. Pritchard, who was unavoidably absent. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Master Frank Cudmore. — Fossil crab, from Beaumaris. 



By Mr. J. E. Dixon. — Twenty-seven species of Coleoptera 

 recently collected. 



By Mr. J. F. Haase. — Orchid in bloom, Dijiodium ptmctatum, 

 from Belgrave. 



By Mr. T. S. Hall, M.A. — Lower jaw of young seal; tour- 

 maline, from Oberon Bay. 



By Mr. C- French, jun. — Rare Coleoptera, collected during 

 month of January last — Cardiothorax anreios (new to science), 

 Tragocerus lepidopterus, from Alps, Victoria ; Stigmodera 

 menalias, from Dandenong Ranges ; ^Esiotyche favosa, from 

 South Gippsland. 



By Mr. J. A. Kershaw, F.E.S., for National Museum. — 

 Collection of Coleoptera from Launching Place, collected by Mr. 

 G. Coghill ; also entomological specimens collected during 

 Wilson's Promontory excursion. 



By Mr. H. Jeffery. — Stone axe. 



By Mr. A. Mattingley. — Photograph of nest, young, and adult 

 of Coachwhip-bird, Psoyhodes crepitans. 



By Mr. F. Pitcher, for the Director. — Blooms of two 

 Australian Flame Trees now flowering in Melbourne Botanic 

 Gardens — Stercidia acerijolia (New South Wales and Queens- 

 land), S. tricosiphon (Queensland and North Australia). 



By Mr. F. M. Reader, — Dried specimens of unrecorded 

 varieties of Victorian plants. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



EXCURSION TO WILSON'S PROMONTORY. 

 In response to the invitation of the committee of the Field 

 Naturalists' Club of Victoria, quite i,ooo ladies and gentlemen 

 were present at the Masonic Hall, Collins-street, on Thursday 

 evening, 8th February, when a popular description was given, 

 with lantern illustrations, of the country at Wilson's Promontory 

 visited during the Cliristmas excursion of the Club. 



The president, Mr. F. G. A. Barnard, occupied the chair, and, 

 in introducing the lecturer of the evening, Mr. T. S. Hall, M.A., 

 said that the reservation at Wilson's Promontory should not be 

 considered merely as a National Park for Melbourne, or 

 even for Victoria, but must be regarded as an AustraHan 

 sanctuary for representatives of the larger forms of its 

 unique fauna, where they can be studied in a state of nature 

 by naturalists of other countries, and instanced the success which 

 had attended the preservation of the North American bisons 



