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A report of the junior excursion to Black])urn on Saturday, 

 4th October, was given by Dr. C. S. Sutton, one of the leaders, 

 who said that the excursion was fairly well attended. The 

 weather was fine, and about eighty plants were observed in 

 flower. The best of these were ChamcBscilla corymbosa. 

 Ranunculus lappaceus, Hihhertia stricta, Acacia armata, and 

 Olearia sfelhdata. Prostanthera lasianthos was found in plenty, 

 growing in a small creek quite near to the station. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



On a ballot being taken, Mr. R. A. Bastow, 575 Sydney-road, 

 Brunswick, and Mr. R. R. Grundy, 455 Sydney-road, Bruns- 

 wick, were elected ordinary members, and Mr. J. B. Gregson, 

 Land Office, St. Arnaud, as a country member of the Club. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



There being only one nomination, Mr. F. Pitcher was 

 declared duly elected as a vice-president of the Club. 



Mr. P. R. H. St. John said that when journeying to the 

 Yering Gorge on 25th September he had noted twenty-five 

 set fishing-lines on the river-bank. The lines were all baited 

 with magpies' heads and breasts, the dead magpies, minus their 

 heads, being found along the banks. He had reported the 

 matter to the district inspector under the Fisheries and Game 

 Act. 



PAPERS READ. 



1. By Mr. F. Chapman, A.L.S., entitled " Notes on the 

 Occurrence of the Cainozoic Shark (Carcharoides) in Victoria." 



The author said that, of the many interesting palaeonto- 

 logical links connecting the Patagonian strata of South America 

 .with the Victorian and South Australian deposits of Cainozoic 

 age, not the least striking is this present occurrence of the teeth 

 of two species of the shark referable to the genus Carcharoides, 

 described by Dr. F. Ameghino in 1906. One of the species 

 is new, whilst the other corresponds with Ameghino' s C. 

 tortuserratus The fact of this genus having hitherto been 

 confined to the Patagonian beds, and now occurring in the 

 well-known Waurn Ponds quarries, gives support to the opinion 

 that both series formed parts of the same sea-bed. The 

 Patagonian series has been regarded as of Lower Eocene age 

 by Ameghino. 



The description of the new species, Carcharoides tenuidens, 

 was taken as read. The author's remarks were illustrated 

 by diagrams, &c. 



2. By Mr. G. V. Doyle, entitled '' A Note on Parturition in 

 Perameles " (communicated by Dr. T. S. Hall, D.Sc.) 



The paper, being a technical one, was taken as read, and 



