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and great interest in the work had been evinced by the juniors. 

 The afternoon was devoted to the pond-life to be found in 

 the lagoons there. Some attention was paid to the aquatic plants, 

 Ottelia ovalifolia being noted in bloom, others recorded being 

 Potamogeton natans, F. obtustis, Heleocharis sphacelata, Polygo- 

 num minus,, P. strigosa, Utricularia Jlexuosa, Triglochin irrocera 

 and Myriophyllum varicefolium ; with Nitella, sp., Volvox globato7\ 

 and Closterium Ehrenhergi among the lower forms. Animal life 

 did not seem particularly abundant, but some fine colonies of the 

 rotifer, Lacinularia pedimculata, were collected. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



On a ballot being taken. Miss K. Crawford, Motherwell-street, 

 Hawksburn, was elected an ordinary member, and Miss Flora E. 

 Daintv, Harold-street, Middle Park, an associate member of the 

 Club.' 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



The president took occasion to welcome to the meeting Mr. 

 T. Steel, F.C.S., of Sydney, a former member of the Club, and 

 one still interested in its welfare. Mr. Steel, in thanking the 

 members for their cordial reception, said that he followed the 

 Club's doings with interest, by means of the Naturalist, every 

 month, and was pleased to notice its steady advancement. He 

 desired to convey the good wishes of the New South Wales 

 Naturalists' Club, and hoped some of the neglected branches of 

 natural history would claim their devotees ere long. 



The Chairman announced that the resignation of Mr. R. W. 

 Armitage of the office of assistant hon. secretary and librarian 

 had been handed in on account of pressure of work, and hoped 

 someone would come forward to fill the vacancy. 



PAPER. 



By Mr. C. L. Barrett, entitled "The Birds of Eyre Pen- 

 insula, South Australia." 



This took the form of a lecturette, illustrated by lantern slides 

 of scenes and incidents connected with the annual camp of the 

 Australasian Ornithologists' Union, held in October last on Eyre 

 Peninsula, S.A., where Warunda, inland some twenty miles from 

 Port Lincoln, was the chosen spot. The locality proved a good 

 one for birds, and photographs of the nests and eggs of a number 

 of interesting species were shown on the screen. The Yellow- 

 banded Parrakeet, Barnardius zonarius, Shaw., often knov/n as the 

 " Port Lincoln," from the Ipcality, was found not to be so plentiful 

 as formerly, owing to the expansion of settlement. On a small 

 island off the west coast pictures were secured of the nesting- 

 places among the rocks, almost within reach of the waves, of 

 the beautiful Rock Parrakeet, Neophema petrophila, Old. A 



