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Errata — 

 ITEMS OF INTEREST TO THE 7.N.8. 



On our many trips to the seaside, members have often 

 picked up a dark-green globular object which, on inspection, 

 is seen to be made up of long cells filled with a watery fluid. 

 Through Mr. Edgar R. Waite, Dr. Tiegs, of the University, has 

 Mndly identified this for us as an Alga or true seaweed belonging 

 to the family Codium. 



Captain White is truly indefatigable in his advocacy of 

 bird protection. -Since his return from his trip across, Aus- 

 tralia he has delivered no less than 172 lectures. 



The neighbouring State of Victoria has gazetted an area 

 of 16,000 acres in the extreme north-west of the State as a 

 National Park, in order to preserve some of the wild life of 

 the mallee country. Ought not something of the kind to be 

 done in our State before it is too lateT 



The moth taken at Ambleside has been indentified by Mr. 

 Lea as Aenosanda hoisduvalU. The little balls so often noticed 

 on the guinea flowers are made by the larvae of a weevil, 

 Cassythkola echinata. Lea, first described by Mr. Lea. 



The "Argus" of July 28, 1923, contains the statement that 

 another consignment of Australian birds and animals (including 

 about 150 kangaroos) had left Sydney recently for New York. 



