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Vol. X.— No. 5. SEPTEMBER, 1893. No. 117. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



The monthly meeting of the Field Naturalists' Club was held on 

 Monday evening, 14th August. Mr. H. T- Tisdall, F.L.S., the 

 president, occupied the chair, and there was an attendance of 

 some 50 members and friends. 



MEETING FOR PRACTICAL WORK. 



■ It was reported that a meeting for practical work was held on 

 Monday evening, 24th July, when Rev. W. Fielder, Assistant 

 Demonstrator in Biology in the University, gave a practical 

 demonstration on the dissection of the leech. Members had 

 provided themselves with a dissecting dish and knives, forceps, 

 scissors, pocket lens, drawing book and coloured crayons, and 

 after a few directions and diagrams had been committed to paper, 

 active operations commenced. Mr. A. G. Fryett gave active 

 assistance in demonstrating to individual members, and altogether 

 very fair progress was made in the work. It is proposed to 

 continue the series of demonstrations month by month, such 

 forms as the snail, crayfish, and frog being added to the list. 



librarian's REPORT. 



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

 tions to the library : — " Proceedings of the Linnean Society of 

 New South Wales," 2nd series, vol. viii., part i, from Society; 

 " Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1892,'' from 

 Society ; " Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia," 

 vol. xvi., part 2, and vol. xvii., part i, from Society ; " Transactions 

 of the New Zealand Institute," xxv. (1892), from Society ; " Cata- 

 logue of Marine Shells of Australia and Tasmania," part iii., by 

 J. Brazier, from Trustees Australian Museum ; " Handbook of 

 Destructive Insects of Victoria," part 2, by C. French, F.L.S., 

 from the author. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



On a ballot being taken, Messrs. E. Allman and E. Griffiths were 

 duly elected members of the Ckb. 



papers read. 



I. By Rev. W, Fielder, entitled, " Description of an Infusorian 

 (one of the Acinetidse) found at Heidelberg." 



