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Vol. XV.— No. 10. FEBRUARY 9, 1899. No. 182. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



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

 Society's Hall on Monday evening, i6th January, 1899. '^^^ 

 president, Mr. C. French, F.L.S., occupied the chair, and about 

 40 members and visitors were present. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



From Department of Trade and Customs, stating, in reply to a 

 communication from the Club, that the Chief Commissioner of 

 Police had been requested to instruct his officers in the locality 

 of Wilson's Promontory to endeavour to prevent the destruction 

 of any of the fauna in the National Park there, and enclosing 

 copies of the proclamations for the protection of the fauna in the 

 reserves and the regulation of the fishing in the surrounding 

 waters. 



From Mr. A. J. North, Sydney, disclaiming any connection 

 with the compilation of the " List of Vernacular Names for Aus- 

 tralian Birds," recently published under the auspices of the Aus- 

 tralasian Association for the Advancement of Science. 



REPORTS. 



The hon. librarian reported the receipt of the following donations 

 to the library : — " Records of the Geological Survey of N.S.W.," 

 vol. vi., part i, 1898; also, " Index to Vol. V.," from IDepartment of 

 Mines, N.S.VV. ; JVature Notes, from Selborne Society ; and the 

 Wombat, vol. iv., No. i, Nov., 1898, from Gordon Technical 

 College, Geelong. 



He also reported the receipt from Prof. Boulger, London, of a 

 letter appreciative of the paper on pre-Linnean botanists recently 

 published in the Naturalist, and forwarding for the Club's library 

 " Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany 

 in England from its Origin to the Introduction of the Linnean 

 System," by Richard Pulteney, M.D., F.R.S., in two volumes, 

 published 1790, and " A Biographical Index of British and Irish 

 Botanists," compiled by Jas. Butten, F.L.S., and G. S. Boulger, 

 F.L.S., F.G.S., 1893. 



On the motion of Messrs. O. A. Sayce and G. Coghill, a 

 special vote of thanks was accorded to Prof. Boulger for his 

 valuable donation. 



Mr. D. Le Souef, C.M.Z.S., as delegate of the Club at the 

 Cambridge Congress ot Zoology, read a report of the more in- 

 teresting facts which came under his notice while taking part in 

 the proceedings and excursions. 



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