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By Dr. C. S. Sutton. — Photographs of the Cradle Mountain, 

 Tasmania, its surroundings, and certain plants occurring in the 

 locality. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



Correction. — In last month's Proceedings, page 172, lines 

 5, 6, for "classed among the Breams," read "considered as 

 allied to the Blennies." 



THE LATE CHARLES M. MAPLESTONE. 



Natural science in Victoria has sustained a severe loss by the 

 death of Mr. Charles M. Maplestone, which occurred at Eltham 

 on the i8th January. Mr. Maplestone, who at the time of 

 his death was 75 years of age, for the greater part of his life 

 was an ofhcer in the Victorian Postal Department, and, while 

 occupying the position of postmaster, was stationed at various 

 seaside localities, where he devoted much of his leisure time 

 to the study of marine natural history. So far back as 1872 

 he forwarded to the Royal Microscopical Society, London, a 

 paper describing the odontophores of the marine mollusca of 

 our shores, accompanied by accurate and delicately executed 

 figures, which, he explained, were his first attempts at natural 

 history drawings with the pen. This paper, with the drawings, 

 was published in the Monthly Microscopical Journal. 



About 1880 Mr. Maplestone began to concentrate his 

 attention on the Bryozoa, of which he had been a student since 

 1866, and in 1881 he contributed to the Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society of Victoria a paper entitled " Observations on Living 

 Polyzoa," in which he described the animals of a number of 

 species, only known otherwise from the empty polyzoaries. 

 About the same time he described several new species in papers 

 read before the Microscopical Society of Victoria. Owing to 

 the amalgamation of that society with the Royal Society, and 

 the consequent discontinuance of its journal, some of these 

 papers were not published, and one of his new genera — 

 Dikista — lapsed, and was afterwards described by the late Dr. 

 P. H. Macgillivray under the genus name Maplestonia. Many 

 of Mr. Maplestone's notes were communicated to Dr. Mac- 

 gillivray, and utilized by that gentleman, and by Professor 

 M'Coy in his " Prodromus." After 1884 Mr. Maplestone's 

 official duties as an inspector necessitated constant travelling, 

 and prevented his working at his favourite study, and all his 

 undescribed material was handed over to Dr. Macgillivray. 



Li 1898 Mr. Maplestone, whose retirement from official life 

 had then afforded him leisure to resume his scientific pursuits, 

 undertook, at the suggestion of Professor Spencer, to furnish 



