■i "iz' ] Field N aturalists' Club — Proceedings. 41 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 



Dr. Hall drew attention to the vast amount of information on 

 all branches of science contained in the " Reports of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, U.S.A.," and said that members would 

 do well to make increased use of them. 



The hon. secretary read a note forwarded by Mr. J. Searle, in 

 which he said that at the November meeting of the Club he 

 exhibited a copepod, taken on the Nyora excursion, which he 

 took to belong to a new genus, but not caring to take the 

 responsibility of founding a new genus for the specimen, he had 

 forwarded it to Professor G. A. Sars, of Christiania, the 

 well-known authority on this group, who had agreed with him, 

 and provisionally named it Hemibceckella searlei. 



The retiring hon. secretary (Mr. A. D. Hardy), speaking with 

 reference to paragraphs which had appeared in the daily and 

 weekly papers immediately after the last meeting of the Club, 

 and which had been regarded by some as reports of the meeting, 

 said that they had not been furnished by him, or authorized by 

 any of the office-bearers. Moreover, they were incomplete, and 

 to some extent incorrect. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Messrs. J. H. Gatliff and C. J. Gabriel. — Marine shell, 

 Fasciolaria auslralasia, Perry ; the same, var. coroiiata, Lamarck ; 

 type of Fasciolaria auslralasia, Perry, var. bakeri, Gatliff and 

 Gabriel ; nidamental capsules and young shells of Fasciolaria 

 (in illustration of paper). 



By INIaster Karl Glance. — Dried specimens of Loranthus 

 penduliis, Sieb., and Acacia suaveolens, Willd., collected at Black 

 Rock, 3rd June. 



By Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L.S.— Pollen grains of Golden Wattle, 

 Acacia pycnantha, stained for microscope. 



By Mr. J. Searle. — Specimens of the new copepod, Hcmiback- 

 ella searlei, Sars (genus and species new), taken at Nyora, 

 November, 191 1. 



By Mr. J. R. Tovey. — Dried specimen of introduced plant. 

 Ribwort Plantain, Planlago lanceolata, L., showing foliation of 

 the inflorescence, collected in Government House Domain, Mel- 

 bourne. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



The following exhibits were made at the May meeting, but 

 space could not be given them in the June Natmalist : — 



By Mr. R. W. Armitage, B.Sc. — Plants of the Peanut, Aracliis 

 hypogcr, grown at the Agricultural High School, Colac : sapi- 

 sapi shells, a species of Spondylus, from which New Guinea 



