56 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



The Werribee Gorge. — The May number of the Education 

 Gazette and Teachers^ Aid, published by the Education Depart- 

 ment of Victoria, contains, as a supplement, an excellently 

 illustrated article by Mr. J. A. Leach, B.Sc, on the recent visit 

 of the teachers and pupils of the Continuation School to the far- 

 famed Werribee Gorge, near Bacchus Marsh. A better place for 

 teaching physical geography could scarcely be conceived, and to 

 those who are not familiar with the locality the pictures illustrating 

 the article will prove of great interest. Residents of Melbourne 

 have but a faint idea of the rugged grandeur of this gorge, with its 

 encircling cliffs rising in one part to 615 feet above the stream. 

 Though never likely to be much disturbed, such a spot should be 

 the centre of an area of national property, and thus preserved for 

 all time. Some particulars of this locality appeared in the Vic- 

 torian Naturalist, vol. viii., p. 99, and vol. xviii., p. 40. 



The Eucalyptus Tree in Italy. — Prof. H. A. Strong, of 

 Liverpool University, formerly of Melbourne, writing to a friend, 

 says: — "It maybe of interest to Australians visiting Rome to 

 know that the environs of that city are becoming more and more 

 covered with eucalyptus trees every year. Indeed, the gum 

 tree in many of its varieties may already be said to have become 

 one of the most common features in the landscape of southern 

 Italy. No Australian should omit to visit the Trappist monastery 

 of le Tre Fontaine, about two miles beyond St. Paolo fuori della 

 Mura, which is now surrounded by a regular forest of gum trees, 

 extending over several hundred acres, the trees being from 40 to 

 50 feet in height. The brother in charge told me he had made a 

 special study of the eucalyptus tree, and had no less than 60 

 different species in the grounds of the monastery." 



Remains of Iguanadon in Belgium. — In 1877 the workmen 

 in the Bernissart coal pits, near Hainaut, in Belgium, came upon 

 numerous gigantic bones at a depth of 1,056 feet, or 984 feet 

 below sea level. They were found in a wide clay fault, which 

 interrupted the coal strata, and on being examined were found 

 to be the remains of the gigantic iguanadon, of which hitherto 

 only fragments had been found. The excavation of the remains 

 occupied three years, and their examination and reconstruction 

 several years more. Finally, no less than twenty more or less 

 complete skeletons have been reconstructed, and set up in 

 the Brussels Museum, thus forming the finest collection of 

 these remains in the world. — Scientific American, 17th March, 

 1906. 



The Macallister Valley. — A popular illustrated description 

 of this rugged part of Gippsland, which was geologically 

 described in the last Naturalist, appeared in the Leader of 

 Saturday, 26th May, 1906. 



