Feb. 

 1913 



^•'] Field Naturalists' Club — Proceedings. 143 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTE. 



Mr. J. Gabriel stated that since reading his paper, " On the 

 Mutton-Birds of Bass Strait," in January last, he had re- 

 visited the locality, and was sorry to say that his observations 

 were very much confirmed. The birds were still being 

 destroyed in numbers by being caught on the barbed wire 

 fences which cross the hummocks near Cape Woolamai, and he 

 thought that some action should be taken by the Club to have 

 unnecessary wires removed. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. J. W. Audas, F.L.S. — ^Ten species of native plants 

 endemic to Victoria and peculiar to the Grampian Mountains, 

 collected in September, 1912. 



By Mr. F. Chapman, A.L.S. — Slabs of Middle Devonian lime- 

 stone — " Buchan marble " — now being used in the staircase 

 of the new Public Library, largely composed of the " honey- 

 comb coral," Favosites, sp. ; polished block of Devonian marble 

 from Ilfracombe, with " Stag's-horn coral," Pachypora, sp. 



By Mr. G. Coghill. — Orchid, Orthoceras strictum, in bloom, 

 from Ringwood. 



By Mr. F. Cudmore. — Collection of fresh-water shells from 

 Avoca station, Wentworth district. Western New South Wales ; 

 collection of fossils from the Upper Eocene (Bartonian) beds 

 of Barton, Hampshire, England. 



By Mr. J. E. Dixon. — Coleoptera from Lake Hattah, N.W. 

 Victoria, including Carenum cordipenne, Stigmodera hakewelli, 

 S. fiilviventris, &c. 



By Mr. C. French, jun. — Coleoptera collected on the excursion 

 to Cockatoo Creek, nth January, 1913. 



By Mr. C. J. Gabriel. — Victorian marine shells, Cyprcea 

 angustata, Gmel., and five varieties. 



By Master Karl A. Glance. — Specimens of Glossodia hrunonis, 

 Caladenia flava, Anigozanthos preissii, A. viridis, and A. 

 manglesii, from Mundaring, Western Australia. 



By Mr. J. T. Hamilton, F.L.S. — Fossil wood from Dargo 

 High Plains. 



By Mr. J. Searle. — Crustacean, Callianassa, sp., dug out of 

 sand at low water, and young pipe-fish, from Frankston ex- 

 cursion ; land crustaceans and earthworm, from Cockatoo Creek 

 excursion. 



By Mr. P. R. H. St. John. — Herbarium specimens of 

 Haloragis data, A. Cunn., Tall Rasp-wort ; Ba^sia sclcrotcen- 

 oides, F. v. M., and Kochia aphylla, R. Br., Spiny Blue-bush, 

 all collected Bacchus Marsh district, 7th December, 1912 ; 

 also Leucopogon (Styphelia) jtmiperinus, R. Br., Juniper 

 l^eard-heath, from Brisbane Ranges, October 1912 — all 



