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of insects. By Miss F. M. Campbell, paintings of Tasmanian 

 fungi. By Mr. A. J. Campbell, egg of the little green fruit- 

 pigeon, Chalcophaps chrysochlo7-a. By Mr. G. Coghill, orchid in 

 bloom, Corysanthes priiinosa. By Mr. E. M. Cornwall, New 

 Zealand birds, viz., N.Z. pigeon, long-tailed cuckoo, bell-bird. 

 Cape pigeon, minor penguin, dove petrel, and white-faced 

 petrel; also fossil Kauri wood. By Mr. C. French, F.L.S., 

 lepidoptera from North Queensland, Papilio ulysses, and Ornith- 

 opiera priamus. By Mr. H. C. Grover, an allied kite, roller- 

 bird, and black magpie. By Mr. E. H. Hennell, hymenoptera 

 and diptera. By Master G. E. Hill, Victorian birds' eggs. 

 By Master W. H. Hill, Victorian moths. By Mr. D. Le Souef, 

 granite with polished surface, probably caused by glaciation, 

 from New Zealand. By Mr. W. Jennings, fossil skull of 

 wombat, from near Geelong* fossil whale's earbones, from 

 Cheltenham and Waurn Ponds; minerals, from Teetulpa and 

 Burra, South Australia ; and fossil oak, from Nottingham, 

 England. By Mr. W. E. Matthews, mineralogical specimens, 

 from Maldon. By Mr. H. L. Thompson, freshwater shells, 

 from Albert Park Lake. By Mr. H. Watts, 70 species of 

 diptera, mounted for the microscope. By Mr. S. H. 

 Wintle, F.L.S., fossil casts of Brachiopodous shells, from 

 Upper Silurian, Studley Park ; bone of marine animal, with 

 polyzoa and shells attached, from new canal cutting, Yarra 

 delta, found 20 feet below surface ; parasitic fungus, Sphceria 

 innominaia (Bentham) on large caterpillar, from Apollo Bay. 

 By Master A. Yelland, crystals from basalt, Clifton Hill. 

 After the usual conversazione, the meeting- terminated. 



A RAMBLE IN A GIPPSLAND GULLY. 



(Read before Field Naticralists' Club of Victoria, 14th Feb., 1887.) 



By Henry Thos. Tisdall, F.L.S. 



I SELDOM travel along the Gippsland railway without seeing some 

 of those passengers who get in from, say, Warragul, carrying 

 plants of rooted ferns I remark that the commonest is the 

 Lomaria discolor. This fern borders nearly all the streams of 

 North Gippsland. If we examine a plant we may observe that 

 it grows in tufts ; all the leaves (or fronds, as they are termed) 

 springing from a centre, and after growing from one to two feet 

 high they bend gracefully towards the ground. Each frond 

 widens out gradually from the dark stem, and then tapers to a 

 point, and is indented to the midrib at each side, giving the leaf 

 the appearance of being composed of green tongues, from the 

 centre of the plant a few very narrow leaves grow quite upright. 

 On examining one of these a m iss of dusty, brown matter may be 



