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fossils; by Mr. J. T. Gillespie, eggs of five Victorian biixls; by Master 

 Hill, insects from Windsor and Mt. Macedon; by Mr, Johnstone, 

 geological specimens; by Mr. H. Kennon. English fossils; by Mr. 

 W. Kershaw, timber-feeding Lepidoptera; by Mr. A. H S. Lucas, 

 typical Cerithia from Headon Beds, Isle of Wight; by Mr. D. Le 

 Souef, Tiger skull, flying-fish caught near Java, death-adder from 

 Queensland, and crabs from Malay States; by Mr. F. Eeader, 

 mounted fodder grasses; by Mr. J. F. Roberts, tropical orchids in 

 bloom, viz., Oncidium crispum from South America, and Cypi'q'iediuin 

 Bullenianum, from Borneo; by Mr. R. Sinison, nickel ore, and rice 

 from New Caledonia; by Mr. Watts, marine alg^ recently collected 

 at Queenscliff, and oyster spat from Western Port Bay; by Mr. T. 

 Worcester, shells Valuta magnifica from New South Wales, and 

 V. purpurata, Solomon Islands. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING. 



A Special General Meeting of the Field Naturalists' Club was 

 held on 8tli December, 1884, to consider certain proposed alterations 

 in the rules, which were carried after some little discussion. 



Rule IV, was amended so as to make the annual subscription for 

 ordinary members fifteen shillings. The "Naturalist" is to be 

 forwarded post free to all such members. 



Where there are two or more members from the same family, the 

 subscription for the first is to be fifteen shillings, and for the rest 

 ten shillings each per ann«m. But the " Naturalist" will be received 

 post free only by the first. 



The subscription for junior members, between the ages of 13 and 

 18, remains five shillings. Junior members do not receive the 

 " Naturalist" without the extra subscription for that journal. 



Rule V. was amended by the insertion of a clause, which enacts 

 that the rights of membership date from the time of payment of the 

 first subscription. 



BRIEF RECORD OF A NEW SCAEVOLA; 



By Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M.D., Ph.D., 

 F.R.S., F.C.S., &c. 



SCAEVOLA BEOOKEANA. 



Erect ; branches angular as well as the foliage glabrous ; leaves 

 glaucous, sessile, sharply but remotely denticulated or quite teeth- 

 less, the lower leaves cuneate-ovate ; the upper cordate, acute, clasping 



