156 Field Naturalists' Club — Proceedings. [vol?XXxil. 



PAPER READ. 



By Mr. J. G. O'Donoghue, entitled "Rambles in Raak." 

 The author gave a very interesting description of a fort- 

 night's collecting in the Mallee, about 40 miles south of Mildura, 

 during October last, in the course of which a large variety of 

 natural history objects were met with. 



Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L.S., said the author had contributed 

 a very useful paper, by reason of the fact that he had touched 

 upon a variety of subjects. Since the plants collected during 

 the trip had been submitted for verification to the National 

 Herbarium, the botanical references would be of considerable 

 value. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTE. 



An interesting natural history note on the Sydney Crayfish, 

 Palinurus Hiigeli, Heller, was contributed by Mr. H. \V. 

 Davey, F.E.S., who said : — Last week I received from Portland 

 a crayfish that was quite unknown to the local fishermen. It 

 was taken in the craypots in the ordinary way. and it was 

 suggested that it was a new species. I found, on examination, 

 that it was the Sydney Crayfish, Palinurus Hugeli, Heller. 

 This is of interest, as I believe this to be a new locality for this 

 species, and it is also. I understand, the farthest west it has 

 yet been recorded from. The late Professor M'Coy. in his 

 " Zoology of Victoria." writes of this species as follows : — 

 "It is so rare south of New South Wales thai I have only 

 seen one (now in Museum here, and figured in the 'Prodromus,' 

 vol. ii., pi. 149) and heard of another caughl on the Victorian 

 coasl near the Porl Phillip Heads." 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. C. Daley, F.L.S. — Marble from Buchan, Past Gipps- 

 land. and Angaston, South Australia, rough and polished : 

 serpentine and corundum with slate, from Mount Wellington, 

 Central Gippsland ; marble from Toongabbie, Gippsland. 



I 1 .- Miss A. Fuller. Variegated form of Eucalyptus coriacea, 

 ( nun. : photograph of Hydrangea, 8| feel in heighl and 15 feet 

 in diameter, growing at Paddington, Sydney, N.SAV. 



By Mi- P G. O'Donoghue. Arrow-shaped crystals oi gypsum 

 (sulphate ol lime), from Raak, Mildura district. 



By Mr. I). J. Paton, Bendigo. Flowering specimens of 

 / wcarpos afhytta, Ifunnti ozothamnoides, Brachyloma ciliatum, 

 Acacia implexa, and Eucalyptus leucoxylon, from the Whipstick 

 1 1. neai Bendi • ■ 



By Mr. F. Pit* her, on behali ol I iiratoi ol Melbourne Botani< 

 Gardens.- Blooms ol rwisted Acacia or Lightwood, Acacia 

 implexa, from Melbourne Botani< Gardens, 



