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trees, including Native Olive, Notelcea ligustrina, Vent. ; Satin 

 Box, Eriostemon sqiia7neus, Lab. ; Cheesewood, Pittosporum 

 hicolor, Hook., &c., with corresponding timber specimens lent by 

 Forests Branch, Department of Agriculture ; thirty species of 

 ferns, including Cijathea cunninghami, J. Hook., Aspidium 

 hispidum, Swartz, Aspleniimi Jlaccidnyn, and Pteris arguta 

 (tremula), Aiton, &c., and the moss Dawsonia superha (new 

 locality) ; also, an incrustation of gypsum from a dark cave 

 at Point Patten, impregnated with the alga Pleurococcus vulgaris. 



By Mr. G. A. Keartland. — Barraband's Parrakeet, Polytelis 

 harrabandi, a young male, aged eight months, showing the red 

 on the inner webs of the tail feathers. 



By Mr. C. P. Kinane. — 50 photographs, in illustration of 

 Messrs. C. L. Barrett and E. B. Nicholls's paper. 



By Mr. A. Mattingley. — Skin of snake from Borneo. The 

 snake measured, in the flesh, 33 feet in length; the skin, owing to 

 sun-drying and tanning, is now 26}4 feet long. 



By Mr. J. Newell, jun. — Beads worn by natives at Broome, 

 W.A. ; also eggs of Australian tree-lizard. 



By Mr. E. B. Nicholls. — Specimen of Pigmy Flying-mouse, 

 Acrobates pygmceus, captured at Olinda Creek, South Wandin ; 

 also a White-lipped Snake from Cunninghame. 



By Mr. F. Pitcher, on behalf of Director Melbourne Botanic 

 Gardens. — Blooms of Eucalyptus ficifolia (various shades), E. 

 calophylln, E. calophylla, var. rosea, Acacia elata, Sterculia 

 acerifolia (Flame Tree), and Mdaleiica genistifolia, all Australian 

 trees, now flowering profusely in the Gardens. 



By Mr. E. O. Thiele. — Geological specimens from Mt. 

 Wellington, North Gippsland — Graptolites, striated boulder from 

 a palaeozoic conglomerate, chromite, serpentine, &c. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



EXCURSION TO WARBURTON. 



Warburton, situated on the Yarra, nearly fifty miles from 

 Melbourne, offers many attractions to the field naturalist, and it 

 was with pleasurable anticipations that a party of six left town by 

 the early train on Saturday, 12th November, to spend the greater 

 part of three days in that sylvan district. The journey, as far as 

 Lilydale, is rapidly losing its bush-like appearance, and con- 

 sequently its charm for the naturalist, but the next few miles, 

 during which the train climbs the hills approaching Olinda Vale 

 station, offer many opportunites to the botanist to note various 

 shrubs, &c., in bloom. Here in many places GreviUea alpina 

 made a goodly show, while Leptospennum scoparium and Daviesia 

 latifolia added variety to the scene. Passing through the lower 

 country about Wandin, the last remaining blossoms of the Acacias 



