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that they were made up of the fibres of a grass growing on the 

 sand dunes near the sea coast, and that in Central Australia they 

 are also very common. 



Fern. — Mr. A. E. Kitson, F.G.S., drew attention to a variety 

 of the fern Lo7na7-ia discolor, known as bipinnatifida, showing 

 development from a form with entire pinnules to one in which 

 the pinnules are deeply cleft or partite. When found, the tops 

 only of some of the fronds showed the partite character, the lower 

 pinnules being entire. These fronds are now dying or dead, but 

 a new one appearing shows the partite character along the whole 

 of the stem. 



Reed-Larks. — Mr. G. A. Keartland drew attention to the 

 skins of two Reed-Larks exhibited by him, one, Calamantlms 

 full yinos IIS, being from Waratah, Tasmania, where the original 

 type specimen was procured. The others, shot near Melbourne, 

 v/ere recently described and named G. alhiloris by Mr. A. J. 

 North, in Part IV. of " Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds Found 

 Breeding in Australia and Tasmania." Apart from the great 

 difference in size, there appeared to be ample justification for 

 specifically separating the birds. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. P. C. Cole. — Boomerang, from N.W. Queensland. 



By Mr. A. D. Hardy.— Various drawings and microscopic 

 exhibits in illustration of paper. 



By Mr. G. A. Keartland.— Skins of the Striated Reed-Lark, 

 Calamnnthus Juliyinostis, and the White-lored Reed-Lark, C. 

 albiloris ; eggs of the Long-legged Tern, Stt7'na anglica, taken in 

 New South Wales last season. 



By Mr. A. E. Kitson, — Specimens of fern, Lomaria discolor, 

 var. bipinnatiji'/a, from Berry's Creek, between Mirboo North 

 and Leongatha, South Gippsland. 



By Mr. A. H. E. Mattingley.— I'usks of Dugong, Ha'icore 

 auslralis, from North Queensland, in illustration of paper. 



By Mr. H. T. Tisdall. — Coloured drawings of the Native Bread 

 fungus, Folyporus mylittce, and actual sections taken from 

 specimens obtained in Gippsland in 1884. 



EXCURSION TO CAMBERWELL. 



A GEOLOGICAL excursion to Camberwell was made on i6th 

 April, and was attended by over twenty members. The party 

 examined the railway cuttings near the East Camberwell station, 

 where red quartz sands and fine quartz conglomerates, not very 

 distinctly bedded, were seen resting on the upturned edges of 

 the bedrock of the district, which is of Silurian age, the top of the 

 Silurian being between 230 and 220 feet above sea level. The 

 valley to the eastward was then crossed, and on its opposite side, 



