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VoL.YI.—Nos. 10-11. FEB.-MARGH, 1890. Nos. 74-75. 



THE FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



The ordinary meeting of the Club for January was postponed, 

 owing to a communication having been received from the Council 

 of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 

 inviting the members of the Club to be present, and exhibit 

 specimens, at the conversazione of the Association held in the 

 University Buildings on Monday evening, T3th January, 1890. 



The following exhibits were shown on that occasion : — By Mr. 

 F. G. A. Barnard. — Two cases of Victorian insects. By Mr. A. 

 Coles. — A large collection of mammals, birds, &c., from Victoria 

 and other parts of Australia. By Miss Cochrane. — Paintings of 

 25 species of Victorian orchids. By Mr. T. A. Forbes-Leith. — 

 Victorian parrakeets; photographs of Victorian aborigines, and 

 their weapons ; photographs of the last of the Tasmanian 

 aborigines ; photographs of Eastern races — Pacific Islanders, 

 New Zealanders, &c. ; photographs of Fijian weapons ; cloth 

 brought from Pacific Islands by Captain Cook in 1770; parra- 

 keets from East and West Indies, Africa, New Guinea, &:c. By 

 Mrs. Flatow. — Hydrozoa, Polyzoa, &c., from Point Lonsdale 

 curious unnamed crab from Nui, Pacific Islands. By Mr. 

 C. French, jun. — Case of rare AustraHan birds' eggs. By 

 Mr. C. Frost. — 143 species of Victorian spiders, in spirits. By 

 Mr. R. Hall. — Case of fresh water and marine shells, Victoria. 

 By Mr. L. Hart. — Photographs of Field Naturalists' Club's 

 expedition to King Island. By Mr. W. Jennings.— Fossils from 

 Portland, Hamilton, Lethbridge, Waurn Ponds, Cheltenham, and 

 Schnapper Point, Victoria. By Mr. W. Kershaw. — Four cases of 

 Australian Lepidoptera. By Mr. G. A. Keartland. — 100 species 

 of Victorian birds ; 98 species of Victorian birds' eggs ; several 

 rare snakes and lizards. By Mr. G. Lyell, jun. — Fine specimens 

 of butterfly, Papilio mackayanus from Dandenong Ranges ; case 

 of Victorian butterflies, containing 12 species of Lycsenidse and 

 14 species of Hesperidse. By Mr. D. Le Souef — Case of abori- 

 ginal weapons ; Kiwi's eggs ; young Platypus ; large Pearl shells 

 from Western Australia, and pair of Giant Clams {Tridaaia 



