the Utctoriati naturalisi 



Vol. XXVII.— No. U. MARCH 9, 1911. No. 327. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



The ordinary monthly meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Royal Society's Hall on Monday evening, 13th February, 191 1. 

 The president, Mr. F. Wisewould, occupied the chair, and 

 about 50 members and visitors were present. 



ELECTION OF MEMBER. 



On a ballot being taken, Mr. W. J. Code, Heathcote, was 

 elected a country member of the Club. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



Mr. G. A. Keartland expressed his regret that the authorities 

 had decided to alter the opening of the shooting season for 

 quail from ist March to 15th February, and said that, with a 

 view of testing the condition of the birds, he had gone out on 

 the previous Saturday, when his dog had put up a hen .quail 

 with seven chicks of very immature growth. He maintained 

 that in such cases shooting the adult bird on the 15th inst. 

 would mean the death of the young birds from starvation and 

 want of protection. 



PAPER READ. 



By Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L.S., entitled " On the Occurrence 

 of a Red Euglena near Melbourne." 



The author stated that he had prepared some notes in 

 1906-7 on observations made during 1905-6-7, and had been 

 waiting for another favourable summer (which, however, had 

 not occurred) in order to complete his investigations. For- 

 tunately, sufficient material had been collected and examined 

 to enable him to either uphold Ehrenberg's species, Euglena 

 sangttinea, or to found a new species, which he provisionally 

 named E. rubra. The paper was illustrated by specimens and 

 diagram sketches on the blackboard. 



Dr. T. S. Hall, M.A., congratulated the author on the 

 trouble taken by him, and on the way in which the paper had 

 been presented, and remarked that the evidence tendered 

 seemed to him to be sufficient to separate the organism under 

 notice from the common species, E. viridis. He mentioned also 

 the occurrence of Spherella in some water in an old iron boiler 

 at the University, where changes of colour were noted. It 

 had to be remembered, however, that erythrin, as well as 

 chlorophyll, could decompose CO 2 in the presence of sunlight. 



Mr. J. Stickland mentioned the occurrence of Spherella 

 under similar circumstances. 



