62 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. [Vol. XXVI. 



The hon. librarian acknowledges the receipt of the following 

 donations to the Library : — " Transactions of Natural History 

 Museum, Hamburg,"vol. xxv., from the Director; "Bulletin of the 

 American Museum of Natural History," vol. xxv., part i, from the 

 Museum; "The Wilson Bulletin," December, 1908, from the 

 Wilson Ornithological Society, Oberlin, U.S.A.; "Proceedings 

 and Transactions Nova Scotian Institute of Science," vol. xi., parts 



3 and 4, and vol. xii., part i, from the Institute; TJie Brazilian 

 Entomologist, June and August, 1908, from the editor; Know- 

 ledge, November, 1908, from the publishers. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



On a ballot being taken, Mr. Edgar Handley, 74 Park-street, 

 North Fitzroy, was elected an ordinary member ; Miss L. 

 Parkinson, 12 Johnson-street, Glenferrie, an associate member; 

 and Miss Nestor Smyth, Master Ponsonby Smyth, 36 Park-street, 

 South Yarra ; Miss Edith Steel, 37 Leopold-street, South Yarra ; 

 Master Leslie Dennis, Walker-street, Northcote ; Master Horace 

 FuUard, Gillies-street, Fairfield ; and Master E. Potts, Cotham- 

 road, Kew, as junior members of the Club. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



Mr. A. J. Campbell gave notice that he would move at the 

 December meeting : — 



1. "That this Club take some action to prevent the stripping 

 of bark from the Silver Wattles on the Yarra banks, particularly 

 between Heidelberg and the neighbourhood of Eltham." 



2. " That this Club aid in the promotion of a ' National 

 Wattle-day.' papers read. 



1. By Mr. J. A. Kershaw, F.E.S., entitled "Additions to the 

 Fish Fauna of Victoria, No. 2." 



The author recorded the occurrence for the first time in Aus- 

 tralian waters of an extremely rare deep-sea fish, the Crested 

 Band-fish, Lophotes cristalus, Johnson, recently received by the 

 National Museum. The specimen, which measures a little over 



4 feet in length and only ij^ inches in thickness, was captured 

 in shallow water about 20 miles east of Apollo Bay, on the Vic- 

 torian coast. The fish, a photograph of which was exhibited, is 

 remarkable in shape, the head being abruptly elevated in a high 

 crest, on the extreme anterior angle of which is a long, flexible 

 spine, 9 inches in length, the body tapering off to the very narrow 

 tail. This remarkable species was previously recorded from the 

 island of Madeira, in the Atlantic, and its occurrence on our 

 coast is believed to have been due to recent heavy storms. 



2. By Mr. A. J. Campbell, Col. Mem. B.O.U., entitled " Wattle- 

 time, or Yellow-haired September." 



The author, in an interesting paper, drew attention to some of 



