THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



near Avoca (country member) : Mr. R. E. Trebilcock, "Leopold," 

 Geelong (country member) ; Master Eric C. Mercy, Canterbury 

 (junior member), were duly elected members of the Club. 



On the motion of Messrs. G. Coghill and J. F. Haase, Mr. H. 

 T. Tisdall was voted to take the chair while Mr. Barnard read 

 his paper. 



PAPER. 



By Mr. F. G. A. Barnard, entitled " Some Early Botanical 

 Explorations in Victoria." 



The author, in a very interesting paper, described the 

 botanical explorations in Victoria in 1852-5 of the late Baron 

 Sir F. von Mueller, Government Botanist of Victoria (then 

 Dr. F. Mueller), and with the aid of several maps traced 

 as closely as possible the routes followed on each journey. 

 Reference was also made to the unreliability of some of the 

 earlier maps of Victoria, several of the errors in which he pointed 

 out, and said that Dr. Mueller's description of the country 

 traversed led him to believe that the Mount Hotham of Dr. 

 Mueller is the peak we now know as Bogong, while his Latrobe 

 is probably our Wills. 



Mr. H. T. Tisdall (acting chairman) complimented Mr. 

 Barnard on his interesting paper, and remarked on the complete- 

 ness of the late Baron's researches. He stated that, though he 

 had collected for some years in the country east of the Baw Baw 

 Mountains, he did not find a single species of plant that had not 

 already been found by Baron von Mueller. 



Mr. C. French, F.L.S., gave some details of the Baron's early 

 travels and the difficulties that he had to encounter in his long 

 journeys. He said that one could not but admire the great work 

 he accomplished, which was carried out with such completeness 

 that he left little to be done after his death. 



Mr. A. D. Hardy complimented Mr. Barnard on the large 

 amount of interesting material he had accumulated, and remarked 

 on many of the difficulties the author must have encountered in 

 his endeavours to satisfactorily determine some of the localities 

 visited by the Baron. He thought that much of the late Baron's 

 geographical data was not too reliable, and explained his reasons 

 for arriving at that conclusion. 



Mr. T. S. Hall, M.A., also spoke to the paper. Owing to the 

 lateness of the hour, Mr. J. C. Goudie's paper, " A Summer in 

 South Gippsland," was postponed. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 



Mr. H. T. Tisdall read a note dealing with the fungus known 

 as " Native Bread," Mylitta australis, and promised to give a 

 paper on the subject at an early date. 



Mr. T. S. Hall drew attention to the discovery of fossil 

 dicotyledonous leaves by the British Antarctic Expedition, which 



