THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST 25 



FIELD T^x^TURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



April Monthly Meeting, Royal Society's Hall, Monday, 21st * 



The President, the Hon. Dr. F. S. Dobson, M.L.C., occupied tlie 

 cliair, and there was a large attendance of members. 



SeYeral nominations for menibersliip were received, and Mr. J. F. 

 Bailey promised a paper on " Some Land Shells collected by Col. 

 Hutton at Dandenong." 



In accordance with the rules uf the Club, the nominations were 

 made for office-bearers for tlie ensuing year, who will be duly 

 balloted for at the next meeting. 



Two papers were read, the first being " On the Classification of 

 Eucalyptus," by Rev. Dr. W. Woolls, Ph.D._, F.L.S., who 

 described tlie different methods which had at various times been 

 adopted by botanists, such as by tlie '' Operculum," by the Bark, by 

 the Anthers, and by the Fruit, tlie last being favoured by our great 

 botanist, Baron F. Von Mueller, and also by the writer. The 

 second paper was a most interesting one on " Snakes," by Mr. D. 

 Le Souef, the well-known Assistant-Director of the Zoological 

 Gardens, and as, from his position, li? has had favourable oppor- 

 tunities for observation, he was able to record many particulars of 

 the habits, &c., of these Reptiles. 



The Hon. Librarian acknowledged the receipt from tlie author, 

 Mr. A. J. Campbell, of a copy of his work on " Australian Oology," 

 for which the thanks of the Club were duly accorded him. 



The general exhibits were not quite so numerous as on previous 

 ■occasions. They comprised British Birds, Parus major, (Great 

 Titmouse,) Regulus cristatus, (Golden-crested AVren,) '1 roglodytes 

 vulgaris, (Common Wren,) Certhia familiaris, (Tree Creeper,) 

 Emberiza Citrinella, (Yellow Hammer,) and Fruigilla Ccelebs, 

 (Chaffinch,) by T. A. F. Leith ; Shells, Voluta interpuuctata from 

 India, Conns VictoricT, (Queen Victoria's Cone), from Victoria River, 

 N.W. Aust., by J. F. Bailey ; Shells of the genus Columbella, 18 sp. 

 from West Head, Western Port, by J. H. Gatliff ; recent entomo- 

 logical captures, by F. G. A. Barnard ; Mundic-coated crystals 

 from the Ellenborough mine, Sandhurst, by H. Kennon ; a fin.dy 

 preserved cast skin of the Tiger snake — Hoplocephalus curtus — 



