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YoL. YI.— No. 3. JULY, 1889. No. 67. 



THE FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



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

 Hall on Monday evening, 8th April, 1889. 



Professor W. Baldwin Spencer, B.A., vice-president, occupied 

 the chair, and about 40 members and visitors were present. 



A letter was read from the Lands Department, stating that, in 

 response to the Club's request, about 8,500 acres had been added 

 to the forest reserve in the parishes of Jirrah and Tabbara (Cab- 

 bage Tree Creek district). 



A letter was read from the hon. secretary of the sub-committee 

 of the Field Naturalists' Section of the Royal Society of South 

 Australia on the protection of the native fauna and flora, with 

 reference to the great destruction of young kangaroos for the sake 

 of their skins, which are perfectly useless for commercial purposes 

 if under i lb. in weight. A copy of a letter from a leading tanner 

 in the United States was enclosed, and the committee advocated 

 the protection of kangaroos to a certain extent. The matter was 

 postponed until the next meeting, in order to make further in- 

 quiries. 



The hon. librarian reported the receipt of the following dona- 

 tions to the library : — ■" Census of the MoUuscan Fauna of Aus- 

 tralia," &c., and " Plants of the Lake Eyre Basin," &c., by Pro- 

 fessor R. Tate, F.G.S., from the author ; "Australian Butterflies," 

 by Mr. A. Sidney Ollifif, FT^.S., from the Natural History Associa- 

 tion of New South Wales ; " Proceedings of Linnean Society of 

 New South Wales," vol. iii., second series, part 4, from the 

 Society ; " Journal of Pharmacy," March, 1889, from the Society. 



The hon. secretary reported that the excursion to Williamstown 

 Back Beach had been well attended, but that the results, partly owing 

 to the state of the tide,had not been particularly noteworthy. 



On a ballot being taken, Mrs. J. F. Irvine, Messrs. Walter D. 

 Davies, Jas. Tait, and H. W. Tisdall were duly elected members 

 of the Club. 



PAPERS READ. 



1. By Mr. D. Best, entitled "A Holiday Trip to North 

 Mirboo." This was an interesting description of two or three 

 days' collecting in the North Mirboo district, which, on the 

 whole, he considers a good district for naturalists. He obtained 

 several good species of coleoptera and phasmidse. He referred 



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