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THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



The proposed alterations in the rules were submitted to the 

 meeting, and with a few amendments were duly passed. 



Paper real: — By Mr. C. French, F.L S., entitled "The Orchidote 

 of Victoria,'' Part X. In this pai't of this interesting series of 

 pa[)ers, the author described and exhibited specimens of nine species 

 of Victorian orchids, belonging to the genera Caleya, Acianthus 

 CyrtostyUs, Lyperanthus, and Eriochilus. 



Baron F, von Maeller, K.C.M.G., contributed a note on a fern, 

 Adiantum diaphanum, new to Victoria, recently discovered by Mr. 

 C. French, F.L.S., near Drouin. 



Mr. S. H. Wintle, F.L.S., read a note on, and exhibited specimens 

 of some fossil crabs found in an old bed of the River Yarra cut 

 through by the Coode Canal at Fisherman's Bend, and also on some 

 mammalian remains found in the excavations for tlie naw Princes 

 Bridge. 



Tlie following were tlie principal exhibits: — By Mr. F. G. A. 

 Barnard, specimens of thelerp insect, Psylla sp., in various stages, 

 also flowering branches of the handsome leguuiinaceous shrub, 

 Goodia lotifolia, grown at Kew; by Mr. A. Coles, two young 

 Southern stone plovers, or curlews, QSdtcnemus grallarius; by Mr, 

 G. Coghill, orcliids in bloom, Caladenia carnea, and Diuris macidataj 

 by Mr. E. M. Cornwall, sixteen species of Queensland birds, eggs of 

 cassowary, and yellow honey-eater, (Ptilotis faro), from Noitli 

 Queensland, also eggs of the rock warbler, Origina riihriccda, from 

 North Head, Port Jackson; by Mr P. Dattari, collection of 

 Australian buprestid beetles; by Mrs. Flatow, some fine ammonites, 

 and fossils from the Morley Main coal-pits; by Mv. C. French, 

 F.L.S., dried specimens of new Victorian fern, Adiantum diaphanum, 

 and nine species of orchids in illustration of his paper, also two 

 male specimens of the square-tailed kite, Lophoictinia isiira, from 

 Omeo; by Mr. T. A. Forbes-Leith, exotic birds, a ISTew Guinea 

 pitta, a New IrL^and myna, and a Fijian lorikeet; by Master H_ 

 C, Grover, an owl, and a sooty crow-shrike; by Mr. R. Hall, pipe- 

 fish nnd star-fl-^li, also a clutch of crow's eggs from Larerton; by 

 Mr. J. T. Hoden, geological specimens; by Mr. H. Keanon, a brown 

 snake, 3 feet long, killed at Glenrowau on September 11th, specimen 

 of cotton from New Guinea; by Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., a 

 new plant, HeJicia Forhssiana, fr>im New Guinea, a copy of Part I. 

 of " The Myoporinea; of Australia," l>y Baron von ^luoller, Govern- 

 ment Botanist, " iMonograph of the Erythreaj," by NVittrock, Sweden; 

 by Mr. F. Reader, rare unrecorded Victorian mosses, Glyphomitrium 

 ac'UifoUain, Hook, an I Wils., Enihosthodon gracilis, Hook, ami 

 Wils , anl Tortida mnralis, Hedw., also T. torqaata, Tayl., (Y'\ct.) 

 and Phascum cylindvicum, Tayl., (Vict.); by Mr. H. Watts, a new 

 marine hydrozoon, Plumularia Wattsii, from Queenscliff ; by Rev. 

 W. T. Whan, M.A., coral from Diego Garcia, fossils from Glenelg 



