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Vict. Nat. 

 ol. XXXVI. 



The refreshments were in charge of a party of Red Cross 

 ladies, and a ladies' string orchestra provided agreeable music 

 at intervals. 



Miss Amy Fuller's water-colour drawings of South African, 

 Western Australian, New South Wales, and Victorian flowers 

 were greatly admired by a large number of visitors. 



The Club was indebted to the Age proprietary for paper for 

 covering the tables, and to the Canterbur}- Horticultural Society 

 for the use of specimen glasses, &c. 



The thanks of the Club are due to those members, headed by 

 Messrs. F. Pitcher and J. Gabriel, who gave up so much of their 

 time in carrying out the details of the exhibition. 



The Fish-Remaixs of New Zealand. — The Geological 

 Survey branch of the New Zealand Department of Mines has 

 recently issued an interesting bulletin (No. 7) entitled " The 

 Cretaceous and Tertiary Fish-Remains of New Zealand." The 

 report is the work of Mr. Frederick Chapman, A.L.S., palse- 

 ontologist. National Museum, Melbourne. It is based on the 

 examination of some 550 specimens of fossils forwarded to 

 Melbourne by the N.Z. Geological Survey and the Canterbury 

 Museum. Some thirty years ago a number of similar fossils 

 were examined by Mr. J. W. Davis, F.G.S., and the results 

 published in the Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society. 

 Mr. Chapman has revised the previous work on the subject, 

 and has had to make a large number of alterations in naming, 

 reasons for which are fully set out in the bulletin. The speci- 

 mens were principally sharks' teeth, and many of them occur 

 in Victoria, as well as in other parts of the world. 



The Melbourne Zoo. — The story of how we got our " Zoo " 

 is told by Mr. A. W. Greig in the Argus of Saturday, 4th 

 October. It is interesting to learn that so long ago as October, 

 1857, a meeting was held in Melbourne for the purpose of 

 forming an Ornithological Society ; but it was not, as its title 

 might imply, to study ornithology — it was intended more for 

 improving the breeds of poultry. However, out of that 

 proposal developed our Zoo, one of the leading institutions of 

 its kind in any land, and a monument to the energy of the 

 Le Souef family, two of whom have transferred their activities 

 to other States, to the latter's great advantage. Mr. Greig, 

 who is the hon. secretary of the Historical Society of Victoria, 

 is an authority on the histories of the many local societies, in- 

 stitutions, &c., which, taken together, serve to make life 

 pleasanter in these days of feverish haste. 



