THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



ists, and although they missed seeing the giant gum known as "The 

 Baron,'' the excellent photographs, exhibited in illustration of the 

 paper, gave evidence that this somewhat unknown stretch of country 

 contains glade and scrub of extreme beauty, which will well repay 

 a m.uch longer sojourn than the present party was able to give. 



Amongst the natural history notes received was one by Mr. 

 A. J. Campbell, F.L.S., on " The Breeding Haunts of the White 

 Ibis," the Australian representative of the sacred ibis of the 

 Egyptians. The graphic description of the Ibis " rookery" or 

 nursery and its surroundings, on the Lower Murray, should 

 excite the interest of every ornithologist of the Club. Mr. F. A. 

 A. Skuse, of the Australian Museum, commented on Mr. Thomas 

 Steel's recent paper on "The New Zealand Vegetable Caterpillar;" 

 whilst other notes, interesting to agriculturists, treated of a new 

 remedy against the Phylloxera (the application of dross from the 

 smelting furnaces of iron works) and "The Grasshopper Parasite." 



The following gentlemen were elected as members of the Club: 

 — Messrs. G. M. Simmons, W. Mann, and G. W. Maxwell. 



The hon. librarian reported the following additions to the 

 library : — " Iconography of Australian Salsolaceous Plants," 

 decades i-6 ; " New Zealand Journal of Science," i., a ; 

 •' Pharmaceutical Journal of New South Wales," February, 1891; 

 *' Journal of New York Microscopical Society," vii., i ; " Cata- 

 logue of Australian Birds," part iii. — Psittaci ; " Proceedings of 

 the Linnsean Society of New South Wales," iv. and v. ; " Journal 

 of Pharmacy," March, 1891 ; "Transactions of Geographical 

 Society of Australasia (Victoria Branch)," viii., 2. 



The meeting terminated with the usual conversazione, the 

 exhibits being : — By Messrs. A. J. Campbell and R. S. Sugars. — 

 Photographs of Sassafras Creek. By the Rev. W. Fielder. — Land 

 planarians and nemertine worms from Ferntree Gully. By Mr. 

 C. French, jun. — Eggs of the Graceful Tern, from Western 

 Australia. By Mr. E. H. Hennell. — Beetles and lizards from Fern- 

 tree Gully, and lizard from Corranwarrabul. — By Mr. A. C. 

 Macdonald. — Insects, &c., collected by the Mount Yule expedition. 

 By Baron von Mueller. — Rare or new plants collected during the 

 Mount Yule expedition. — Drimys, Piper, Nepenthes, Ternstroemia 

 britteniana, Aristotelia gaullierea, Sloanea, Saurania, Cupania, 

 Rubus diclinis, Myrtus, Gunnera macrophylla, Symplocos, Rho- 

 dodendron macgregorise, Dendrobium, Freycinetia, and Dawsonia. 



REPORT OF TRIP TO PLENTY RIVER, 20TH Dec, 1890. 



Nine members joined in this excursion to the Plenty River, and 

 the weather was all that could be desired. On alighting at 

 Preston station, a cab was procured, which took the party some 



