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Vol. III. No. 3. JULY 1886. No. 31. 



THE FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF YICTORIA. 



The monthly meeting of the Club was held at the Royal Society's 

 Hall, on Monday evening 14th June, 1886. 



The president, the Rev. J. J. Halley, occupied the chair, and 

 about fifty members and visitors were present. 



A letter was read from Prof. R. Tate, F.G.S., Adelaide, thanking 

 the Club for his election as an hon. member, oifering to name for 

 members specimens of tertiary mollusca, and desiring specimens for 

 examination from southern and south-eastern Victoria. 



In reply to the resolution passed at the last meeting, a letter was 

 read and accepted from Mr. T. A. Forbes-Leith, in which he withdrew 

 his resignation, etc. 



The hon. librarian reported the receipt of the following donations 

 to the library: — 



"Monograph of the Tertiary Bivalves of Australia," Part I., 

 from Prof. Tate, F.G.S., Adelaide; "Proceedings of the Linnean 

 Society of New South Wales," Vol. I., Part 1, new series from the 

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

 Vol. VIII. , from the Society; " Proceedings of the Field Naturalists' 

 Section of the Royal Society of South Australia," for 1884-5, from 

 the Section; " Journal of the New York Microscopical Society," Vol. 

 I., Nos. 8 and 9, Vol. II., Nos. 1 and 2, from the Society; " Joumal 

 of Pharmacy," Vol. I., No. 5, from the Society. 



The hon. secretary reported that the excursion to Lilydale on the 

 Queen's Birthday had been fairly attended, and read a short account 

 of the outing. Ferns, lichens, and fungi were the principal objects 

 collected; of the former some twenty species were noted, among the 

 lichens, several specimens of Peltigera dactyla, and Thysanotheciiim 



