Nov. 



IQI2 



] Exhibition of Wild-flowers. 



By Mr. F. J. Thomas. — About 15 species from Beech Forest. 



By Messrs. J. R. Tovey and W. L. Harry. — About 36 species 

 from Mentone, including Aotiis villosa, Dillwynia cinerascens, 

 Podolepis acuminata, Prasophylliim datum, Thelymitra longi- 

 folia, RicinocarpHs pinifolius, &c. 



By Mr. F. Wisewould. — About 36 species from South Gem- 

 brook, including Pultenc&a Gunnii, Glycine clandestina, Cala- 

 denia Menziesii, &c. 



Vernacular Names for Victorian Plants. — Another 

 portion of suggested names, embracing the orders Rutaceae — 

 Amarantaceae, was pul)lished in the Journal of the Victorian 

 Department of A sericulture for September. 



The Late Mr. Francis Barnard. — Sympathetic reference 

 was made at the October meeting of the committee of the Club 

 to the death of Mr. Francis Barnard, of Kew, one of the original 

 members of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, elected in 

 May, 1880, and, though he attended but one or two meetings, 

 retained his membership and interest in its doings till his death. 

 He passed away at the ripe old age of 89, on the 21st September. 

 He was best known as an expert microscopist, having been 

 induced to take up that line of study by the late Dr. T. S. 

 Ralph, and in his turn became the tutor of several present-day 

 observers. He devoted some attention to microscopic fungi, 

 one species, Phragmidium Barnardi, which he found on Rubus 

 parvifolius, being named after him by Dr. C. Plowright, an 

 English authority. He came of a very old English family, 

 traceable with certainty back to the time of Edward HI. (1380), 

 and through his mother was a descendant of that famous 

 botanist. Sir James E. Smith, founder of the Linnean Society 

 of London, and who, as the friend of Sir Joseph Banks, 

 became responsible for the naming of a number of the New 

 Holland plants collected by that celebrated traveller. 



The Late Dr. J. C. Cox. — Dr. James C. Cox, of Sydney, who 

 passed away on the 29th September at the age of 79, was an 

 hon. member of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, having 

 been elected to that position in August, 1884. He was an 

 enthusiastic conchologist, and in 1866 jiublished " A Mono- 

 graph of the Australian Land Shells," illustrated by coloured 

 plates, and this year, along with Mr. C. Hedley, F.L.S., con- 

 tributed "An Index to the Land Shells of V^ictoria " to the 

 memoirs of our National Museum. He was alwaj's willing to 

 help any worker in that branch of natural science, in which 

 he was such a great authority, while his kindly, genial manner 

 endeared him to those who had the privilege of his friendship. 

 He had been for many years a trustee of the Australian 

 Museum, Sydney, and at the time of his death was Chairnian 

 of the Board. 



