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Launching Place and Warburton will afford a great variety of 

 stones, often banded with thin quartz veins. Again, at the 

 Djerriwarrh Creek, between Melton and Bacchus Marsh, 

 Silurian stones of infinite variety may be collected {Vict. Nat., 

 xxiv., p. 127). The author is to be thanked for directing 

 attention to such apparently trivial objects as pebbles, and 

 showing how every production of Nature can reveal a story 

 if one is clever enough to interpret it. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



RE " AUSTRALIAN PLANTS," BY W. R. GUILFOYLE. 



To the Editor of the Victorian Naturalist. 



Sir, — I should be glad if you would allow me to say, in regard 

 to your review of the above book in 3'our last issue, that, as 

 one who was officially connected with the author during the 

 whole of his curatorship of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, 

 and also as a member of the Plant Names Committee of the 

 Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, I have no sympathy what- 

 ever with that portion of the review which relates to the com- 

 mittee mentioned. Mr. Guilfoyle was under no obligation 

 to acknowledge the committee's work, however valuable it 

 was. On the other hand, he assisted the committee, from time 

 to time, by furnishing it with lists of common names of Vic- 

 torian plants which had been collected at the Gardens during 

 his curatorship. — Thanking you in anticipation, I am. Sir, 

 yours truly, 



F. PITCHER. 

 Botanic Gardens, 27th February, iqii. 



[The words "failed to acknowledge" in the review in question 

 (line 3, page 203) were used in the sense of " failed to refer to," 

 and not with any implication that the work of the Plant Names 

 Committee had in any way been made use of by the author 

 without acknowledgment. — Ed. Vict. Nat.] 



We regret to record the death of Mr. F. M. Reader, of 

 Dimboola, a well-known botanist and collector. He was a 

 good authority on the grasses of the southern Wimmera, 

 describing several new species in these pages. When a resident 

 of Melbourne he commenced a flora of Studley Park {Vict. Nat., 

 vol. i., p. 172 et seq.), but owing to his removal to the country 

 it was not completed. His collections, which were very ex- 

 tensive, were acquired by the National Herbarium a little 

 time ago. 



