114 THE VICTORIAN 'NATURALIST. 



PAPERS READ. 



1. Baron F. von Mueller, K.C.M.G., contributed -'Notes on 

 Rare Victorian Fungi," in which he mentioned the discovery 

 for the first time in Victoria of two singular fungi, viz. — 

 Cyttaria Gunnii (Berk) on the beeches in the Cape Otway 

 Forest, and Cordyceps Taylori (Berk) parasitical on a grub, at 

 Gerangamete, and exhibited the specimens, 



2. Mr. H. Watts read a paper entitled " Some Recent Addi- 

 tions to our Knowledge of Microscopic Natural History," in 

 which he mentioned the finding by him of Sertularia bispinosa 

 and 6". trispinosa at Warrnambool about twenty-five years ago, 

 but only lately recorded, while recently he had found a new 

 Plumularia at Queenscliff", which had been named P. Wattsii, 

 by Mr. W, M. Bale, F.R.M.S. A neuropterous insect, belonging 

 to the Collembola, and a wood-mite, belonging to the family 

 Oribatidag, had also proved to be new to science He concluded 

 by giving some particulars of his work with the fresh-water 

 algae and desmids of Victoria, and handed in lists for publica- 

 tion of forty two species of the former, and thirty-five of the 

 latter. He exhibited some carefully prepared specimens and 

 drawings in illustration of his remarks. 



3. Messrs. C. French, F.L.S., and F. G. A. Barnard con- 

 tributed a paper entitled " Notes of a Holiday Tour in 

 Riverina and Western Victoria," in which they described the 

 plants, &c., found in the neighbourhood of Mulwala, New South 

 Wales ; the Wannon, near Hamilton ; and Mount Sturgeon, 

 near Dunkeld. They exhibited the various botanical and 

 geological specimens referred to in their remarks. 



The Rev W. T. Whan, M.A.. of Belfast, forwarded an 

 interesting note on some specimens of pumice-stone he had 

 found some time since on the island of Diego Garcia, in the 

 Indian Ocean, having been just washed ashore. These had 

 apparently drifted from the great eruption at Sunda, and taken 

 about thirteen months to traverse the intervening 2000 miles. 



The following were the principal exhibits : — By Mr. F. G. A. 

 Barnard, photographs of the Wannon and Nigretta Falls near 

 Hamilton, fossils from Muddy Creek, and sandstone from 

 Iklounts Abrupt and Sturgeon, in illustration of paper, also 

 specimens of the locust plague, Epacromia terfninifera, from St. 

 Arnaud ; by Mr. T. A. Forbes-Leith, a pair of swallow dicoeums, 

 Dicceum hirundinaceum, with thdr purse-like nest, also nearly 

 sixty species of birds' tongues, and tongues of platypus and 

 iguana ; by Mr. C French, F.L.S., dried plants from Mulwala 

 and Western Victoria, in illustration qf paper ; by Madame 

 Friederich, specimen of sponge, also a branch of an apple 



