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probably been used by the aboriginal inhabitants of the district, 

 were picked up, and a small mill-stone was fortunately saved from 

 a geologist's hammer. Future visitors would do well to keep 

 within the railway enclosure for about a mile before turning north, 

 as a considerable amount of farming has recently taken place in 

 the district, and one cannot make a bee-line across the plain as 

 formerly. 



A report of the junior excursion to the Zoological Gardens on 

 Saturday, 2nd April, was given by the leader, Mr. J. A. Leach, 

 M.Sc, who reported a very good attendance of juniors, who were 

 greatly interested in the various birds and animals. 



The hon. librarian acknowledged the following additions to the 

 library : — " Biography of a Silver Fox," by E. T. Seton ; " Wild 

 Life at Home — How to Study and Photograph It," by W. 

 Kearton ; "Wild Life in Australia," by D. Le Souef; "The Life 

 of the Bee," by Maeterlink ; " Robert Dick," by S. Smiles ; 

 " Story of the Heavens," by Robert Ball ; " Mendel's Principles 

 of Heredity," by W. Bateson, M.A. ; " CEcology of Plants," by 

 E. Warming, Ph.D.; "Text-Book of Petrology," by F. H. 

 Hatch, Ph.D. ; "The Naturalized Flora of South Australia," by 

 J. M. Black — all purchased : " Fragmenta Phytographi?e Aus- 

 tralise," by F. von Mueller, from the Government Botanist ; 

 " Weeds, Poison Plants, and Naturalized Aliens of Victoria," by 

 Prof. A. J. Ewart, D.Sc, from the author ; " Records of 

 Geological Survey of Victoria," vol. iii., part r, from Department 

 of Mines, Melbourne ; Journal of Agriculture, Victoria (Sep- 

 tember, 1909, to April, 1 9 10), from Department of Agriculture, 

 Melbourne ; " Records of Geological Survey of New South 

 Wales," vol. viii., part 4 (1909), from Department of Mines, 

 Sydney ; Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales (November, 

 1909, to April, 1910), from Department of Agriculture, Sydney; 

 " Nests and Eggs of Birds found Breeding in Australia and 

 Tasmania," vol. ii., parts 3 and 4 (Index), by A. J. North, 

 C.M.Z.S., from Trustees Australian Museum, Sydney. 



At this stage Lieut. Otes and a party of about forty naval 

 cadets from the Japanese warships arrived, and were cordially 

 welcomed by the president, Lieut. Otes briefly replying. 



PAPERS READ. 



I. By Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L.S., entitled " Notes on Ramsden's 

 Cave, Cape Patten." 



The author, by means of a fine series of lantern slides, described 

 the nature of the country in the vicinity of Cape Patten, on the 

 eastern coast of the Otway peninsula, and gave a more minute 

 description of the cave, which is situated high up in the face of a 

 cliff. He considered the cave was the result of wave action 

 tunnelling into the sandstone cliff, followed by an almost vertical 

 fall of rock between joint planes causing a high-level cavity, the 

 pool resulting from the talus at the entrance forming a dam. 



