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Vict. Nat. 

 ol. XXXVII. 



that form its case — assuming the " steps" of the catcipillar to 

 measure an eighth of an inch, and comparing them with the 

 paces of an ordinary walker, this distance would be fully equal 

 to one and a half miles ; three species of plants mentioned in 

 Mr. Williamson's notes on Victorian plants {V'id. Nat., May, 

 1919) as plants of which there is no record of their having been 

 collected in Victoria, and of which there are no Victorian 

 specimens in the National Herbarium — viz., Oreomyrrhis piil- 

 vinifica, F. v.^M., Cushion Carraway, and Azorella Muelleri, 

 Benth., Pennywort Azorella, both collected on Mount Hotham, 

 and Lycopodium Selago, Linn., Fir Club-moss, collected near 

 Mount St. Bernard, Australian Alps (specimens of all of these 

 have been presented to the National Herbarium) ; Gratiola 

 Peruviana-pmnila, from Healesville ; Verbena officinalis, L., 

 Common Vervain, and the introduced Vervain, V. bonari- 

 ensis, a native of South America, from T'erntree Gully-Gembrook 

 railway ; two forms of plants changed by distortion of sap — 

 viz., Plantago lanceolata, Rib Grass, and Sovchus oleoraccns, 

 Sow Thistle. 



By Mr. L. Thorn. — Case of butterflies, containing twenty 

 Victorian species, ten from New Guinea, and six from Ceylon. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



The late Hon. Sir Frank Madden, K.B.— On the 17th 

 February there passed away, in his 75th year, Sir iMank Madden, 

 who was elected an ordinary member of the Club in December, 

 1902. Though his interests were always in sympathy with 

 the objects of the Club, owing to official duties, and latterly 

 to ill health, he had not taken an active part in its meetings. 

 He was a close observer of nature, as indicated in a paper, 

 " Notes on the Ibis" [Vict. Nat., xix., p. 72, September, i()()2), 

 which he forwarded to the Club through Mr. (i. A. Keartland 

 before his election. In this he called attention to the invalu- 

 able benefit to farmers and graziers of the Ibis family as insect 

 destroyers. He was an authority on the cultivation of grasses, 

 and as chairman of the Studley Park Trust was zealous in his 

 endeavour to preserve the natural beauty of the Park. Among 

 his colleagues on the Trust arc two other members of the Ineld 

 Naturalists' Club — viz., Mr. J. Cronin, Director of the Botanic 

 Gardens, and Mr. F. G. A. Barnard, as a representative of the 

 Kew Town Council. 



Australian Forest League. — At a recent mec ting of the 

 Council of the Australian Forest - League it was decided that 

 " the protection of the native; llora and faima generally " be 

 added to the official aims and objects of the League, 



