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Mr. |. Gabriel remarked that the Little Penguin was a 

 voracious feeder, and instanced a case wherein seventeen large- 

 sized pilchards were taken from the body of one bird. 



REMARKS ON EXHIBITS. 



In referring to his exhibit of herbarium specimens <>l 

 Eucalyptus Risdoni, Mr. P. K. H. St. John said the Blue Pepper- 

 mint was a native of Tasmania, but the trees whence the 

 specimens shown were obtained are growing at Titanga Station, 

 Lismore, Victoria. This species of eucalypt was unique by 

 reason of bearing sessile and petiolate leaves on its branches 

 at the same time. The other exhibit, the little Adder's Tongue 

 Fern, Ophioglossum vulgatuni, though widely distributed, was 

 seldom collected, and its life-history was not very well known. 

 Thousand.-, of specimens of this minute fern might have been 

 collected in quite a limited area at Altona on nth September. 



Mr. (i. Coghill, in the course of his remarks on the six- 

 varieties of acacias he exhibited from Mooroolbark. said that 

 in the locality mentioned the Myrtle Acacia, which was un- 

 doubtedly one of our best from a florist's point of view, was 

 considered a nuisance by the land-holders their. 



Adverting to the specimen of Acacia pyenantha exhibited by 

 Miss Amy Fuller, showing gall growth, Mr. A. D. Hardy said 

 the whole of the raceme of ilower-headlets was involved, and 

 these had been converted into large, solid, circular growths. 

 It appeared to him that the amount of nutriment that was 

 necessary to bring about this abnormal condition of the 

 inflorescence must be quite equal to that essential to the 

 production and maturing of the fruit. 



Mr. ). Searle drew attention to his exhibit ol an undescribed 

 Copepod. It was the Largest of the genus yet found, and 

 occurred in the Yarra Valley. He purposed naming i1 Boeckella 

 major. 



Remarks were made by Mi. F. Pitchei on Acacia Uprosa, 

 var. tenuifolia, and by Mr. <■■ A. Keartland on the eggs ol 

 Polytelis barrabandi. 



EXHIBl i 



By Mr. G. Coghill. Blooms oi Acacia myrtifolia, .1. stricta, 

 .1. dealbata, .1. longifolia, var. mucronata, .1. leprosa, .1. verti- 

 cillata, .1. myrtifolia (cultivated), Pultenaa Gunnii, Kennedya 

 ntonophylla, Comespernta volubile, Hakea ulicina, Eruil ol lf<ik<<< 

 nodosa, LorarUhus pendulus, <><><i(lu< lotifolia, from Mooroolbark ; 



// ifolia, var. rrs/>,T<7, from VY.n bm ton 



Bj M: I v.. Dixon. Five 3pecies ol Beetles, Amycterides 

 (( ur< nlionida ). from Portland and Ouyen, recently described 

 new by Dr. I'.. W. Ferguson, of Sydney. 

 Bj Mi G \. Keartland. Eggs ol the Green Leek Parrot, 



