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Mr. F. G. A. Barnard remarked that he was informed a few 

 days before that a pair of Black Swans liad been seen on the 

 Lower Yarra, among the shipping, opposite the Austrahan 

 Wharf, on sev^eral occasions recently, and that they appeared 

 quite unconcerned about the passing traffic. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. F. Cudmore. — Aboriginal stone implements from 

 Avoca Station, Wentworth, N.S.W. 



By Mr. J. A. Kershaw, F.E.S., on behalf of the National 

 Museum. — Victorian cockroaches in illustration of Dr. Shaw's 

 paper — viz., Polyzosteria magna, Shaw ; Platyzosteria brigitce, 

 Shaw ; P. pullata, Shaw ; Euzosteria metallica, Shaw ; Pencsthia 

 australis, Burm. ; and Zonioploca flavocincta, Shaw. 



The main exhibits consisted of wild-ifowers, which are 

 recorded in a separate report. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



EXHIBITION OF WILD-FLOWERS. 



As usual, the October meeting of the Club was devoted prin- 

 cipally to the annual exhibition of wild-flowei-s ; but seldom 

 in the long series of displays made by members of the Club 

 have the flowers been representative of such a small portion of 

 Victoria as on the present occasion. Owing to the exceedingly 

 dry winter and spring in the central and northern portions of 

 the State, most of the flowers were obtained fi'om the south 

 and east of the metropolis. A noticeable effect of the dry 

 weather was the poor display of Tetratheca ciliata, Pink 

 Eyes, bunches of which usually brighten the exhibitions. 

 Fortunately, fine displays from cultivated plants were made by 

 Mr. J . Cronin, Director of the Melbourne Botanic Gardens ; 

 Mr. E. E. Pescott, Principal of the Horticultural Gardens, 

 Burnley ; and a smaller number by Mr. Hugh Anderson, of 

 Tooronga House, Hawthorn, which, besides providing exhibits 

 to look at, demonstrated the fact that a large number of our 

 native plants can be successfully cultivated in our gardens if 

 given the necessary attention. 



The collection from the Botanic Gardens comprised blooms 

 of fifty species of Victorian plants, among which may be 

 mentioned : — Leptospenmi'm myrsinoides. Pink Tea-tree ; 

 Livistona australis, Australian Cabbage-Palm ; Kunzea cordi- 

 folia. White Kunzea ; Cassia australis. Southern Cassia ; 

 Callistemon saligmis, Willow Bottle-brush ; Stypandra glauca. 

 Blue Spray ; Calythrix Siillivani, Grampian Fringe-Myrtle ; 

 Baiiera ntbioides. Wiry Bauera ; Prostanthera melissifolia. Balm 

 Mint-bush ; P. nivea. Snowy Mint-bush ; Phehalium Billardicri, 



