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Professor W. Baldwin Spencer occupied the chair, and about 

 fifty members and visitors were present. 



Mr. D. Best read an account of the Club excursion to Bacchus 

 Marsh on ioth November. The leader appointed was unable to 

 attend, and perhaps in consequence of this, the locality did not 

 prove so interesting as had been expected, though several good 

 captures were made, and Mr. Sweet obtained good palaeonto- 

 logical specimens. 



No report was read of the Oakleigh excursion on 25th October, 

 as it had fallen through on account of unfavourable weather. 



The chairman announced that Mr. J. Stephen Hart had been 

 compelled to resign the office of secretary of the Club, as his 

 time was fully occupied by private engagements. The Rev. W. 

 Fielder was nominated for the vacant position. 



On a ballot being taken, Messrs. T. Bresnahan, T. Brittlebank, 

 and R. S. Sugars were elected members of the Club. 



The hon. librarian reported the following additions to the 

 Club's library:— "The English Flora," Weston, 1775; "Cata- 

 logue of Museum of Antiquities, Sydney University," " Catalogue 

 of Diptera, Orthoptera, and Hymenoptera of New Zealand," 

 " Catalogue of Coleoptera of New Zealand," and Supplement, 

 from Mr. T Judd ; " Catalogue of Australian Birds — Supplement 

 to Part 1 : Accipitres, and Part 2 : Striges," " Memoir ii. — Lord 

 Howe Island : its Zoology, &c.," " Records," No. hi., "Annual 

 Report of Trustees," from Australian Museum, Sydney ; " Annual 

 Report of Boys' Field Club, Adelaide," from the Club ; " Land 

 Shells of Australia," by Dr. J. C. Cox, from the author ; " Bulletin 

 of the Department of Agriculture " and " Report of the Com- 

 mission on Vegetable Products," from the Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



A paper was read by Mr. Thos. Steel on the so-called Vege- 

 table Caterpillars of New Zealand, describing the various theories 

 as to the time and method of infection, and giving instances in 

 in which other insects and spiders had been attacked in a similar 

 manner by a fungus. 



Mr. French's paper on " A Spring Day among the Wild 

 Flowers," was postponed. 



Mr. J. H. Gatliff read a description of a new species of Conus, 

 called by him Conus segravei. 



Baron von Mueller forwarded a description of a new orchid, 

 Thelymitra, elizabethce, from Camberwell. This species is closely 

 related to T. carnea, from which it differs chiefly in the dark 

 colour of the anther and appendages of the gynostemium. 



Mr. D. Le Souef read a list of native birds now breeding in the 

 Zoological Gardens, and a short note on the Freshwater Seal, 

 known to the natives as the Bunyip. 



Mr. Steel said he had noticed that efforts were being made to 



