82 Field Naturalists' Club—Proceedings. [v<ii.'*^xxxV\-. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Ml". A. Rutter Clarke. — Flowering specimens of Acacia 

 verticillata, var. ritscifolia, a low, spreading form found on the 

 Otway coast and in South Australia ; and Melaleuca microvicra, 

 from Western Australia. 



B}^ ]\Ir. G. Coghill. — Bunch of wild-flowers from Mooroolbark. 



By Mr. C. Daley, F.L.S. — Photographs of the crater lakes 

 at Mount Gambler, South Australia. 



By Miss G. Nethcrcote. — Flowering branches of M Icfonlyrlus 

 microphylla (Bceckea plicata). 



By Mr. D. J. Paton. — Wild-flowers from Bcndigo district, 

 including Boronia polygalifolia, Enostemon obovalis, E. difformis, 

 and Dillwynia ericifolia ; also flowers of Common Buttercup, 

 Ranunculus lappaceus, measuring 2j inches in diameter, 

 showing result of cultivation. 



By Mr. F. Wisewould. — Flowering specimens of Acacia stricta, 

 A. diffusa, A. myrtifolia, A. pycnantha, A. linearis, A. verticillata, 

 and A. mdanoxylon, from Pakenham Upper. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



The Late O. W. Rosenhain. — The announcement of the 

 death of Mr. O. W. Rosenhain, at sea, on 4th September, a few 

 days' sail from Japan, will come as a shock to his many 

 naturalist friends. He was elected a member of the Club in 

 November, 1910, and exhibited considerable interest in its work, 

 especially when any movement was afoot for extending the pro- 

 tection of birds or the proclamation of sanctuaries. He was a 

 keen lover of nature, and took part in the Baw Baw trip in 

 January, 1914, and the Wilson's Promontory trip in Dcceml)er 

 of the same year, on each of which he made many friends by his 

 genial comi)anionship. As the result of opportunities availed of 

 during a ])usiness trip to Java in the early part of 1915, he gave 

 an interesting illustrated paper entitled " A Naturalist in Java" 

 at the Deceml)er meeting of the Club [Vict. Nat., xxxii., p. i5()). 

 In April last he contributed another illustrated pa])er, "A 

 Thousand Miles on the River Murray," but did not live to see it 

 in print in the August Naturalist. It is sad that he and his 

 fellow-member, Mr. J. G. O'Donoghue, companions during those 

 interesting "Wanderings on the Murray Flood-Plain " in Sejv 

 tember, 1914 {Vict- Nat., xxxii., p. 7), should so early pass away 

 from the scenes they loved so well. Mr. Rosenhain served as a 

 meml)er of the committee for the year 1915-1O. His health was 

 somf'what imjjaired when he left Melbourne some weeks ago by 

 the anxieties of an importer's life. esi)eri;dly at such a time as 

 the present : but his death from heart failure was quite luiex- 

 })ected, and must have come as a great shock to his wife, who 

 was accompanying him on the trip. 



