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Vol. X.— No. 4. AUGUST, 1893. No. 116. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



The ordinary meeting of the Club was held in the Royal Society's 

 Hall on Monday evening, loth July, 1893. The newly elected 

 President (Mr. H. T. Tisdall, F.L.S.) occupied the chair, and 

 there was an attendance of some 50 members and friends. 



LIBRARIAN'S REPORT. 



The hon. librarian reported the receipt of the following dona- 

 tions to the library : — " Journal Bombay Natural History Society," 

 vii. 4, from Society ; '' Transactions Science Society of Chili," 

 vol. ii., 1892, from Society ; " Index to Families and Genera of 

 Masters' ' Catalogue of Australian Coleoptera,' " from Mr. C. 

 French ; " Catalogue of Periodicals, &c., received at Melbourne 

 Public Library," from the Trustees ; " Proceedings of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia," 1892, part 2, from 

 Academy; and "Journal of Pharmacy, June, 1893." 



MEETING FOR PRACTICAL WORK. 



The hon. secretary reported that at the meeting for practical 

 work held on Monday evening, 26th June, Mr. J. Shephard gave 

 a demonstration of the principles of " The Illumination of Micro- 

 scopic Objects," when there was a good attendance of members, 

 who followed the subject with keen interest. A resume of the 

 evening's work appears on page 59. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



On a ballot being taken, Messrs. A. G. Fryett, A. E. Kitson, 

 and C. A. Robinson were elected members of the Club. 



PAPERS READ. 



I. By Mr. A. J. Campbell, F.L.S., entitled, "A Decade in 

 Australian Oology." 



The author remarked that ten years had elapsed since he com- 

 pleted a series of papers, read before the Club, on " Australian 

 Oology," which were subsequently issued as a manual, towards 

 the end of 1883. At that time there were about 430 descriptions 

 of Australian eggs recorded, while now there are 560 on record, 

 some 80 of which were described and exhibited at meetings of 

 the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria. He briefly referred to 

 other works in the oological field during the decade, and 

 to the more notable finds during recent years, and gave descrip- 

 tions of the eggs of the following birds, viz. : — Blood-stained 



