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Vol. X.— No. 1. MAY, 1893. No. 113. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



The ordinary monthly meeting of the Field Naturalists' Club was 

 held in the Royal Society's Hall on Monday evening, loth 

 April. Mr. C. Frost (one of the vice-presidents) occupied the 

 chair, and there was an attendance of some sixty members and 

 friends. 



librarian's report. 

 The hon. librarian reported the receipt of the following 

 donations to the library : — " Journal of the Bombay Natural 

 History Society," vii., 3, from the Society ; " Proceedings Linnean 

 Society of New South Wales," 2nd series, vii., 3, from the 

 Society ; " Journal of Royal Society of New South Wales," xxvi, 

 (1892), from the Society; " Oological Notes," by A. J. North, 

 F.L.S., from author ; " Gall-making Buprestidae," and " Notes 

 on Family Brachyscelidse," &c., by W. W. Froggatt, from author ; 

 and "Journal of Pharmacy," March, 1893, from Society. 



MEETING FOR PRACTICAL WORK. 



There was a good attendance at the meeting for practical work 

 held on Monday evening, 27th March, when some microscopic 

 members of the group Protozoa were briefly described by Rev. 

 W. Fielder. Microscopes were then called into requisition, 

 and practice obtained in killing, staining, and mounting some of 

 these minute forms of life, the most successful results being 

 obtained by killing a species of Epistylis, found in great abund- 

 ance on the Crayfish (Astacopsis bicarinatus) inhabiting the 

 University lake, with absolute alcohol, and then staining with 

 hoematoxylin. 



REPORT OF EXCURSION TO CARRUM. 



Mr, J. Shephard, who had acted as leader, reported results of 

 a recent excursion to Carrum, when a small but enthusiastic con- 

 tingent of members lighted upon some good " finds " in the 

 brackish water in that locality, some young specimens of 

 Actinozoa and a member of the dino-flagellate group being par- 

 ticularly interesting. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



On a ballot being taken, Mrs. Halliday and Messrs. T. W. 

 Bothroyd, M.A., and J. Gray were elected members of the Club. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



Dr. Dendy called attention to the fact that Baron von Mueller 

 hoped shortly to issue a completing volume to Bentham's " Flora 



