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swans, and a hybrid duck from Boort. By Master H. B. Coles, 

 Australian parrots, also nest and eggs of reed-warbler from 

 Boort. By Mr. E. M. Cornwall, pair ol Apteryx Australis from 

 New Zealand, also eggs of Queen Victoria's lyre-bird, Meniira 

 VictoricE. By Rev. A. W. Cresswell, M.A., fossil remains of 

 lower jaw and tibia of very large extinct wallaby from limestone 

 at Coimadia, near Bacchus Marsh. By Mrs. J. V. Flatow, 

 specimens of lizard, Moloch horridus, from Port Augusta, S.A. 

 By Mr. C. French, jun., eggs of short-tailed tropic bird. By 

 Mr. J. T. Gillespie, eggs of field calamanthus, Calamanthus 

 ■canipeslris. By Mr. E. H. Hennell, fossil fruit from Haddon, 

 near Ballarat, found 170 feet below surface. By Mr. G. A. 

 Keartland, pair of bower-birds. By Mr. W. MacGillivray, two 

 abnormally coloured (light blue) eggs of bustard from Flinders 

 River, Queensland. By Baron F. von Mueller, K.C.M G., plates 

 illustrating " The Acacias of Australia." By Mr. J. E. Prince, 

 several rare natural history works. By Mr. H. Watts, 108 

 ■species of marine bryozoa, mounted for the microscope ; also 

 a quantity of seaweeds, polyzoa, etc., dredgings at Port Phillip 

 Heads by Mr. J. Bracebridge Wilson. By Mr. S. H. Wintle, 

 F.L.S., fossil casts of Orthoceratites, embracing Cyrioceras and 

 ■CryiJCifraj, associated with Rynchonella, Spirifera pleurotomana, 

 etc., from Orthoceratite bed, INIoonee Ponds; also, through the 

 sciopticon, plates of artificially produced Dendrites. By Master 

 A. Yelland, fossils from Tasmania, lava from Sumbawa, picked 

 up in Indian Ocean ; stones from Fiji, Tasmania, and Ireland. 

 After the usual conversazione, the meeting terminated. 



NOTES ON A FEW VICTORIAN LICHENS. 



By Eev. F. R. M. Wilson, Kew. 



(Read before the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 8th Aug., 1 8S 7.^ 



In the *'Fragmenta Phytographice Australiensis," Vol. XL, are 

 published 61 varieties of lichens which have been found in 

 Victoria ; and in the Victorian Naturalist have been published 

 iive by Miss F. M. Campbell, and two or three by Mr. F. Reader. 

 Besides these, there are a number of specimens of Victorian 

 lichens in the Melbourne Botanical Museum which have not yet 

 been published. I believe, also, that a good many have been 

 sent to Europe to be named, and that, when they are returned, 

 the list of known Victorian lichens will be much enlarged. 



Meanwhile I exhibit specimens of 126 species and varieties, 

 found by myself in different parts of Victoria, additional to those 

 already published. I lay on the table a classified list for publica- 

 tion. 



