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a large mirror over the fireplace, regained the street by "taking 

 a header " through another closed window. 



Mr. A. E. Kitson, F.G.S., remarked that he did not agree with 

 the statement in the report of the Otway Forest excursion in the 

 last Naturalist that the absence of the Lyre-birds in the Otway 

 Forest was a sign of the absence of Sassafras trees in the Forest. 

 In South Gippsland he had seen many of the birds in country that 

 was quite destitute of Sassafras trees, and could not believe that 

 the two were necessarily associated. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. F. Chapman, A.L.S. — Section of minerals and rocks 

 from Mt. Shadwell, in illustration of Mr. Jutson's paper ; sections 

 of basalt and lantern slides relating to the excursion to Burnley 

 quarries. 



By Master W. D. Chapman. — Specimens of Aragonite and 

 Vivianite in basalt vesicles from Burnley, collected on recent 

 excursion. 



By Mr. C. French, jun. — Galls of Brachyscelis destroyed by 

 Gang-Gang Cockatoos. 



By Mr. C J. Gabriel. — Shell, Mdongena patula, from North 

 America. 



By Mr. A. D. Hardy. — Sketch map showing division of the 

 Stale into east and west districts in connection with the close 

 season for quail ; on behalf of Lands Department, plan of 

 subdivision of Acclimatisation Society's Reserve at Gembrook, 

 showing a reserve of about 60 acres in the north-west corner, and 

 a strip along each side of Cockatoo Creek, for recreation purposes. 



By Mr. A. Mattingley. — Stuffed specimen of the rare Spotted 

 Crake, Porzana Jliiminea, from Barmah, Victoria. 



By Mr. F. M. Reader. — Dried plants — Hibiscus triomim, L., 

 new for Victoria ; grass, Lepturus incurvatus, Trin., new for N.W. 

 of Victoria ; Avellina inichelii, Savi., an introduced grass, new for 

 Victoria ; and Ipomcea niemanni, F. M. Reader, n. sp., from the 

 Northern Territory, South Australia. 



By Miss Turner. — Pod of Cassia, sp., from Thursday Island. 



By Mr. S. M. Ware. — Heliomystis elecirica and Papilio macleay- 

 anus, collected at Mt. Tonnebuang, between Healesville and 

 Warburton. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



Nature Study. — The Geelong Field Naturalists' Club has 

 inaugurated the first Nature Study Exhibition to be held in the 

 Commonwealth. It will be opened in the Gordon Technical 

 College on Easter Monday, 24th April, An extensive prize 

 schedule, embracing some sixty classes, has been issued, and 

 entries should be made at once with the hon. secretary, Mr. A. B. 

 F. Wilson, 45 Little Malop-street, Geelong. 



