22 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



Mr. W. Kershaw, Windsor— Cabinet-drawers of Australian 

 lepidoptera, foreign lepidoptera, and foreign buprestid beetles. 



Mr. D. Le Souef, Royal Park — A young platypus about four 

 days old (in spirits) ; carpet and diamond snakes (non-venomous), 

 alive ; stump-tailed and blue-tongued lizards, alive ; collection of 

 snakes, etc. (in spirits). 



Mr. A. H. S. Lucas, MA., South Yarra — A pin-tailed duck (a 

 rare British specimen, shot in Norfolk) ; a series of fossil remains, 

 illustrative of British carboniferous flora ; dissections of common 

 star fish (asterina calcar), dried Victorian plants. 



Mr. D. M'Alpine, F.C.S.. Toorak — Living specimen of long- 

 necked river tortoise, from Goulburn River ; a unique specimen 

 of an egg within an egg ; dried specimens of slugs, water and 

 land leeches ; skull of native bear ; also, specimens illustrative 

 of lecturette. 



Baron F. von Mueller, K.C.M.G., South Yarra — Fruits of 

 Adansonia Gregorii (Baobab tree), North-West Australia ; proof 

 plates of late decades of " Acacias of Australasia," drawn and 

 lithographed by R. Graff; drawings of Australian fungi, by Miss 

 Wehl, Mount Gambler. 



Mr. R. H. Nancarrow, Neilborough — Nest of Acaiithiza 

 uropygialis. 



Mr. F. Pitcher, South Yarra — Sixty species of Victorian ferns 

 (dried, mounted, and framed). 



Mr. J. E. Prince, Windsor — Microscopes with objects. 



Mr. F. Reader, Port Melbourne — Dried plants from North- 

 West Victoria (orders : Myrtacese and Compositse) ; collection of 

 Victorian mosses, book of medicinal plants, book of small New 

 Zealand plants. 



Mr. G. W. Robinson, Narre Warren — A bouquet of autumn 

 berries of native and exotic trees and shrubs. 



Mr. J. Searle, Collingwood — Cases of Victorian beetles, butter- 

 flies, moths, etc. ; case of insects, showing their metamorphoses ; 

 case of zeolites, from Clifton Hill quarries. 



Dr. J. Springthorpe, Melbourne — Case of Victorian shells, 

 collected at Griffith's Point, etc. 



Mr. H. T. Tisdall, F.L S., Albert Park— Victorian ferns (in 

 pots). 



Rev. F. R. M. Wilson, Kew — Herbarium specimens of Vic- 

 torian lichens. 



Mr. J. Wing, Collingwood — Specimens of quartz, country rock, 

 and auriferous pyrites, from " Golden Gate" claim, Rushworth ; 

 specimens of fossil reef containing gold and encrinoids, from 

 same locality. 



Mr. T. Worcester, Frankston — Mounted Australian birds. 



Mr. A. Yelland, Fitzroy — Collection of shells, fossils, minerals, 

 and crystals. 



