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secretary to receive subscriptions for the proposed memorial to 

 the late Professor Tate, of Adelaide, and invited intending sub- 

 scribers to send in their names to him. 



Mr. A. J. Campbell gave a brief outline of the first general 

 meeting of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union, recently held 

 in Adelaide, which he stated was a great success. 



The President drew attention to the next meeting of the 

 Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, to be 

 held in Hobart, Tasmania, early in January next. 



PAPERS. 



1. By Mr. J. H. Maiden, F.L.S. — "On the Occurrence of 

 Eucali/ptus dives, Schauer, in Victoria." Communicated by Mr. 

 J. G. Luehmann, F.L.S. 



The author stated that, in working up the distribution of 

 certain eucalypts, he had come to the conclusion that Eucalyptus 

 dives, Schauer, was much more common in Victoria than was 

 generally supposed, and that the trees of this species had usually 

 been regarded either as E. Sieberiana, F. v. M., or varieties of 

 E. amygdalina, Lab. Reference was made to a number of 

 specimens in the herbarium of Mr. A. W. Howitt, F.G.S., from 

 various parts of Gippsland, most of which he considered true 

 specimens of E. dives. 



2. By Mr. F. P. Dodd. — "Notes on the Queensland Green 

 Tree Ants, CEcophylla smaragdina, Fabr. (?) " 



The author gave a very interesting description of the habits 

 of these ants, and their curious manner of using their larvae in 

 the construction of their leaf nests and " enclosures," He also 

 gave a list of a number of butterflies and moths which inhabit 

 these " enclosures " during their larval and pupal stages, and 

 which are not molested by the ants, though other caterpillars, 

 beetles, and especially other species of ants, infesting the same 

 tree are attacked and killed. 



In the discussion which followed, Mr. D. Le Souef, C.M.Z.S., 

 related some of his experiences with these ants, which he 

 stated he had found extremely plentiful in Queensland, and 

 were a great annoyance to the collector, whose specimens 

 they soori destroyed if not placed in a secure position. The 

 natives, he stated, frequently collected the nests, and by 

 crushing them between their hands to extract the juices from 

 the larvae and washing them in water, made an acid drink of 

 which they were very fond. 



Mr. J. A. Kershaw, in congratulating the author on his paper, 

 stated that this ant was no doubt the same as the Green Tree 

 Ant of Ceylon, an interesting account of whose habits appeared 

 in the Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. for 1896, and which coincided 

 in every way with those given in the present paper. It was 



