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Vol. ¥HI.— No. 8. DECEMBER, 1890. No. 84. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



The usual monthly meeting of the Club was held at the Royal 

 Society's Hall on Monday, 13th October. Professor Spencer, 

 one of the vice-presidents, occupied the chair, and about sixty 

 members and visitors were present. 



Mr. J. S. Hart read an account of the excursion to Cheltenham 

 on 27 th September. On account of the unfavourable weather 

 only five members took part in it, and very little was done. Mr. 

 Barnard read the report of the Ringwood excursion, and Mr. 

 Keartland that of the excursion to Melton, both of which have 

 been given in full. In connection with the last mentioned, 

 Mr. A. J. Campbell forwarded an account of a visit to the same 

 district, in which several interesting ornithological observations 

 were made. . 



The hon. librarian reported the following additions to the 

 library : — " Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South 

 Wales," v., 2, from the society ; "' Proceedings of the Nova 

 Scotia Institute of Natural Sciences," vii., 3, from the society ; 

 " Records of the Australian Museum," No. 4, " Catalogue of 

 the Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds," by A. J. North, from 

 the Museum ; "Journal of Pharmacy" for September, from the 

 editor ; Broinowski's " Birds of Australia," i., 6, purchased. 



On a ballot being taken, Mrs. Albert Miller, Messrs. Geo. 

 Miller, R. Hedger Wallace, and J. Lidgett were elected members 

 of the Club. 



Rev. E. H. Hennell read an interesting account of a visit to 

 Pyramid Hill, during which he made collections of various forms 

 of animals, particularly coleoptera and lizards. Amongst the 

 latter was a new species of Tropidalopisma, named by Professor 

 M'Coy T. albonotaia. 



Mr. T. Steel read a paper on " A Mineral occurring in Igneous 

 Rock at Yarraville." This was a mineral allied to Dawsonite, but 

 anhydrous, forming zeolitic deposits in the bluestone. In it were 

 sometimes found pseudomorphs of ferric oxide replacing iron 

 pyrites. 



Mr. H. Tisdall, F.L.S , contributed descriptions of seven new 

 species of fungi — six of the genus Agaricus and one of Hygrophorus, 

 which he had obtained during the past year. He also recorded 

 the discovery of nine other species not known before in Victoria. 

 In the course of a general introduction to the systematic part 



