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who had not had the opportunity of attending n meeting for 

 some years. Mrs. Weindorfer briefly replied, and expressed her 

 pleasure at being once more among her naturalist friends. 



Mr. A. H. K. Mattingley drew attention to the increasing 

 pollution of the Britannia Creek, near Warburton, owing to the 

 establishment of a factory for wood-distillation on its banks, and 

 promised to submit samples of the deleterious matter to the 

 committee for consideration. 



PAPER READ. 



By Prof. A. J. Ewart, D.Sc, entitled "The Changes of Names 

 in the ' Recording Census.' " 



The author said that at the February meeting of the Club 

 attention had been called by Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L S., to 

 apparent discrepancies between the names used in the recently 

 issued " Recording Census " and those adopted by the late 

 Baron von Mueller in his "Key to the Plants of Victoria," 

 when he promised to publish a list of the alterations. The 

 present paper was the result, and showed that only twelve names 

 had been changed in the new list, but when a new Flora of 

 Victoria came to be published a number of other changes would 

 have to be made, which would be out of place in the present list. 



Mr. Hardy thanked the author for the information he had 

 given, but thought that until an authoritative statement of changes 

 was made such lists as those of the Wilson's Promonotory plants 

 in the January Naturalist (vol. xxv., p. 145) should conform to 

 published works or be accompanied by the synonyms. 



Prof. Ewart pointed out in reply that it was essential that in 

 official work issued from the National Herbarium the latest 

 determined nomenclature should be used, hence the use of 

 Astroloma, Leucopogon, Olearia, Stylidium, &c., in the Pro- 

 montory list. 



DISCUSSION. 



As a variation on the reading of papers, the committee had set 

 down a discussion on the Pigeons, Parrots, and Cockatoos of 

 Victoria as an item on the notice paper, with a request for a 

 display of specimens of these groups. 



The chairman introduced the subject by pointing out the 

 characteristic features of the groups and their main divisions, 

 showing how the soft bill of the pigeons was adapted for a 

 granivorous diet, while the hard bill of the parrots was adapted 

 for the work of tearing hard seed cases apart, and mentioned that 

 the Gang Gang Cockatoo seemed to feed exclusively on the very 

 minute seeds of some of the eucalypts. 



Mr. A. H. E. Mattingley, among other points, referred to the 

 value of other Cockatoos as destroyers of wood-boring larvae, 

 while some are very destructive to the larvae of grasshoppers. 



Mr. C. F. Cole called attention to several specimens of parrots, 



