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The author described how the two species Valuta icndulata and 

 V. aiigasi had been confused by several writers, and gave several 

 particulars by which the two species may be distinguished. 



2. By Mr. J. H. Gatliff, " A List of some of the Shells of the 

 Marine Mollusca found upon the Victorian Coast," Part II., 

 which, being a list of names, was taken as read, and ordered to 

 be printed. 



3. By Mr. C. French, F.L.S., entitled "Notes on the Fauna 

 and the Flora of the Western Wimmera." The author gave a 

 most interesting account of a recent collecting trip in the 

 country around Dimboola, Diapur, Serviceton, and Border 

 Town. Some eighty species of plants in flower, peculiar to the 

 district, were collected, of which two were new for Victoria, and 

 several others very rare. He spoke very highly of the neigh- 

 bourhood of Diapur as a good collecting ground, both for 

 insects and plants. He also gave a list of several handsome 

 species worthy of garden cultivation. 



The president mentioned that Mr. J. Bracebridge Wilson, 

 M.A., of Geelong, had added five new species to the list of 

 Victorian molluscs during the past year ; and he also drew 

 attention to a very fine series of prepared and mounted fungi, 

 principally of the genus Agaricus, exhibited by Baron F. von 

 Mueller, K.C.M.G., recently received from Germany. 



The principal exhibits of the evening were: — By Mr. A. Coles' 

 specimens from the Watts River aqueduct tunnel, near Christ" 

 mas Hills. By Mr. E. M. Cornwall, a porcupine ant-eater. 

 Echidna hystrix. By Mr. C. French, F.L.S., mounted speci- 

 mens of dried plants from Western Wimmera, in illustration of 

 paper. 'Sty Mr. C. French, jun., eggs of collared plain wanderer, 

 Australian bittern, white-fronted falcon, brush bronze-wing 

 pigeon, partridge bronze-wing pigeon, and common bronze- 

 wing pigeon, all from Victoria. By Mr. R. Hall, eggs of 

 diving petrel from Cliffy Island, Victoria. By Mr. G. A. 

 Keartland, eggs of sulphur-crested cockatoo, laid by a bird 

 that has been twenty-eight years in captivity ; eggs of spotted 

 pardalote, taken from a hole eighteen inches deep at Lang- 

 warrin ; also skins of snipe, honeyeaters, etc. By Mr. A. H. S. 

 Lucas, M.A., British oolitic fossils, including Arch(207ttscus 

 Brodiei (M. Edw), odontophores of Victorian chitons, with 

 micro-photographs. By Baron F. von Mueller, K.C.M.G., 

 album of fungi prepared in Germany. By Mr. J. E. Prince, 

 specimens of rocks and minerals found in shaft sunk 150 feet 

 deep at corner of Elizabeth-street and Flinders-lane, Mel- 

 bourne. By Mr. J. Searle, coleoptera, lepidoptera, etc., 

 collected since last meeting. By Mr. C. Yelland, fossils from 

 New Zealand, and tusk of boar. 



After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 



