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Vol. XVL— No. 4. AUGUST 10, 1899. No. 188. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



The ordinary monthly meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Royal Society's Hall on Monday evening, loth July, 1899. The 

 president, Mr. J. Shephard, occupied the chair, and about 45 

 members and friends were present. 



REPORTS. 



The president stated that a number of members had paid a 

 visit to the Biological School at the University on Saturday 

 afternoon, 17 th June, when — in the unavoidable absence of 

 Professor Spencer — Mr. T. S. Hall, M.A., conducted the party 

 over the building, and pointed out the more interesting of the 

 specimens in the museum. 



The hon. secretary reported that a practical meeting had been 

 conducted by Mr. O. A. Sayce on Monday evening, 26th June, 

 when the ordinary methods of freezing and cutting sections for 

 microscopical examination were fully demonstrated ; in addition 

 to which Mr. Sayce showed the simplicity and utility of a new 

 method, originated by him, of freezing by means of chloride of 

 ethyl, which does not require any special atomizer or other 

 accessory apparatus. 



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

 tions to the library : — " Annual Report, Department of Mines, 

 Victoria, for 1898," from the Department; "Memoirs of the 

 Geological Survey of New South Wales, Ethnological Series, 

 No. I — Aboriginal Carvings of Port Jackson and Broken Bay, 

 by W. D. Campbell, F.G.S.," also " Records of the Geological 

 Survey, New South Wales," vol. vi., part 2, from Department of 

 Mines and Agriculture, Mew South Wales; "Proceedings Austral- 

 asian Association for Advancement of Science," vol. vii., Sydney, 

 1898, from the Association ; " Proceedings Linnean Society of 

 New South Wales," 1898, part 4, from the Society ; " Description 

 of Ptilotis leilavalensis, a new Honey-eater from North Queens- 

 land," also " Description of Nest and Eggs of Micrceca pallida, 

 De Vis," by Mr. A. J. North, C.M.Z.S., from the author; also a 

 number of microscopical and other magazines from the Rev. J. J. 

 Halley, to whom a vote of thanks was accorded. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



On a ballot being taken, Messrs. H. Hartnell, W, J. Morgan, 

 J. A. Harper, E. Meeking, and S. P. Townsend were duly elected 

 members of the Club. 



