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The paper elicited some interesting remarks from the members 

 present. 



2. Mr. J. H. Gatliff contributed " A List of the Victorian 

 Marine Mollusca," Part I. His introductory remarks having 

 been read, the list of species was taken as read, and ordered 

 to be printed in the Naturalist. 



3. Mr. Jas. Stirling, F.G.S., contributed a paper entitled 

 " Notes on the Flora of Mount Hotham." The author gave 

 some account of the topography and geology of the mountain 

 and district, and then entered into an interesting account of 

 the many endemic flowering plants to be found there, and 

 recommended the district as well worthy of a visit from a 

 botanical point of view, during January or February. The 

 paper was well illustrated with dried specimens, which Mr. 

 Stirling kindly presented to the Club's herbarium. 



This paper also gave rise to some interesting remarks. 



The following were the principal exhibits of the evening : — 

 By Miss F. M. Campbell, Victorian fungi, Podaxon pistillaris 

 and Xylopodium Australe, also plant of Euphorbia Drummondii, 

 with particulars of the drug lately obtained from it. By Mrs. 

 Flatow, shells. Valuta fiisiformis -AXi^. Purpura, eight sp. ; also echini 

 and crabs from Port Phillip Heads, and polyzoa from Point Lons- 

 dale. By Mr. C. French, F.L.S., Australian beetles (Cetonidae), 

 including Schizorhina Bakewelli, Atripen7iis Browfiii, etc. By 

 Mr. C. French, jun., eggs of wattled tallegallus, Australian 

 megapode, common heron, and the Bass' Straits tern. By Mr. 

 R. Hall, a flying fish, recently caught in 22deg. N. and 25deg. 

 W. By Mr. W. Hatton, a souvenir of the Phillip Island 

 trip. By Mr. E. H. Hennell, various ores from Bethanga, 

 Victoria ; silver crystals and rich silver ore from Broken 

 Hills, Silverton. By Mr. H. Kennon, fossil fish, leaves, and 

 ferns. By Baron F. von Mueller, K.C.M.G., a number of new 

 plants from Mt. Bellender-Ker, N. Queensland, collected by 

 Mr. W. Sayer at an elevation of 5200 feet. By Mr. F. Reader, 

 unrecorded Victorian fungi, Nematagonium aurantiactan, Desm., 

 Phragmidium potentillae, Pers. on AccBna sangutsorbae, Puccima 

 aegra, Grove, on Viola hederacea, P. rimosa, Tink on stem of 

 Isolepis nodosa, and Cyphella villosa. By Mr. H. Watts, 70 speci- 

 mens of Australian Hymenoptera, mounted as microscopic 

 objects. By Mr, S. H. Wintle, F.L.S., fossils of species of 

 Brachiopoda and Cephalopoda from the upper Silurian recks of 

 Melbourne, recent shells from New Guinea, gold precipitated 

 by charcoal, the Newberr3'-Vautin process by exhibitor, also a 

 singular bird's nest. By Master A. Yelland, rock fish, whale's 

 blubber, pupil z.\v\ lens of tiger's eye, and lens of shark's eye. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



