■'""'^'1 Field Naturalists' Club — Proceedings. ' 23 



Messrs. A. D. Hardy, G. A. Keartland, and A. H. E. 

 Mattingley took part in a short discussion which followed. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTE. 



Mr. J. Searle forwarded the following note : — Amongst the 

 material collected by Master Karl Glance on Phillip Island 

 during the Easter excursion of the Club was a fresh-water 

 Copepod, not previously described, and which may prove to be 

 the type of a new genus. Unfortunately, from want of ex- 

 perience, the young collector included a large quantity of mud 

 and di'bris in the bottle with his captures, which made the 

 task of isolating the smaller specimens very difficult. However, 

 at my request, he had also brought back with him samples 

 of mud from dried-up pools on the island, and from one of 

 these I have succeeded in rearing quite a number of Copepoda. 

 These hav^e now reached maturity. Several of the females are 

 this morning (nth May) bearing egg-sacs, so I hope at a future 

 meeting to be able to describe this new species. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. F. G. A. Barnard. — Stone from Old St. James's 

 Cathedral, Melbourne, quarried near Moonee Ponds Creek, about 

 Kensington, in 1840. 



By Mr. F. Cudmore. — Aboriginal axe from Diamond Creek, 

 Victoria ; clay wasp's nest used instead of stone in aboriginal's 

 fireplace (stone scarce in the locality). Lower Darling River, 

 New South Wales ; specimen of clay usually used as above. 



By Mr. C. J. Gabriel. — Shells from beach and dredged off 

 Portsea, including Ancilla petterdi, Tate, A. edithce, Pritchard 

 and Gatliff, and A. marginata. Lam. 



By Mr. A. L. Scott. — SiUceous sinter from North Island, 

 New Zealand. 



By Mr. P. R. H. St. John.— Young plant of Eucalyptus 

 Perriniana (showing connate leaves), raised from seed collected 

 by Dr. Heber Green at Dargo, 3rd January, 1914. 



By Mr. H. Whitmore. — A specimen of the Gastropod, 

 Scutus anatinus, Don., commonly called Elephant-fish, collected 

 at Phillip Island during the Easter excursion. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



Australian Butterflies. — We learn that the long-promised 

 work on the butterflies of Australia, by two of our members, 

 Messrs. G. A. Waterhouse, B.Sc, F.E.S., and G. Lyell, F.E.S., 

 is at last in the press. It will be available in August. There 

 are to be over 900 figures, and a glance at some of the plates 

 afforded us great satisfaction on that essential point. The 

 pubUshed price of the work will be two guineas. 



