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Mackenzie Falls, where the stream makes a drop of about 

 90 feet amid very wild surroundings. The night was spent at 

 Wartook, and the return journey made the next day. The 

 author voiced the fear that the popularity of the Grampians 

 is gradually leading to the depletion of favourite plants in 

 localities where they were once plentiful, and future visitors 

 will have to go further afield to see the floral beauties of the 

 district. 



The paper was illustrated by photographs of the district 

 and dried specimens of some of the more uncommbn flowers. 



NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 



Mr. F. Cudmore called attention to photographs of localities 

 in South Australia which he had recently visited. The cliffs 

 on the Lower Murray River and the hard limestone of the 

 Nullabor Plain at Ooldea (East-West railway) are of Janjukian 

 age, w^hile the glacial conglomerate and glaciated pavement 

 rock (Grey Spur and " Selwyn's Rock") of the Inman Valley 

 are of Cambrian age. Two fossil sharks' teeth, Hemipristis 

 serra, Agassiz, and Pristis, sp., were found on the Murray — 

 the former being a new record for Australia, and the latter one 

 for the Australian Janjukian beds. 



Mr. T. S. Hart, M.A., forwarded a note in explanation of 

 his exhibit of natural seedlings of the Large Dodder-Laurel, 

 Cassytha melantha. These were found growing in light sandy 

 soil with a litter of dried leaves, &c., from a tree of Eucalyptus 

 amygdalina, near var. nitida (Howitt's E. amygdalina, C), on 

 which the parent Cassytha was parasitic, at Moormurng, seven 

 miles south-west of Bairnsdale, on loth October. The 

 seedlings root at first in the soil, but quickly become parasitic, 

 after which the root -connection dies off, there never being 

 much root development. Similar stages in cultivation were 

 recently figured by Prof. Ewart in the Proceedings of the Royal 

 Society (vol. xxxi., part 2), and it was his notes which suggested 

 the search and indicated the season. The seedlings also agree 

 with information kindly supplied by Mr. C. C. Brittlebank. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Mr. E. S. Anthony. — Photographs of Robin's nest, with 

 young birds, taken at Eltham, 7th October, 1917 ; photographs 

 of nest and eggs of Chough, also Tawny Frogmouth, taken at 

 'Eltham. 



By Mr. F. Cudmore. — Photographs taken during September 

 and October of geological features at Ooldea, on the East-West 

 railway, Victor Harbour, Murray River, and Inman Valley, 

 South Australia. 



By Miss C. C. Currie. — Fungus, Polyporiis mylittce, known as 

 Native Bread, from Lardner, Gippsland ; piece of petrified wood 



