56 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



elliptical, 5^-7^ x 2-2^ /x, growing in the ground but appear- 

 ing just above it. May, 1900. Sandringham, Victoria; C. 

 French, jun. This species has only hitherto been found in 

 Queensland and Western Australia, and is therefore new for Vic- 

 toria. It was originally placed in the genus Clathms by Berkeley, 

 but on account of the delicate branches of the receptacle, and con- 

 sisting of a few layers of chambers, it was placed under Clathrella, 

 constituted by Fischer. — D. M'Alpine. 



South Australian Ornithological Association. — A meeting 

 of this Association, under the presidency of Dr. A. M. Morgan, 

 was held on 4th June, 1900, when further consideration was given 

 to the society's list of local names for birds. A number of in- 

 teresting exhibits were shown. 



Personal Items. — Members will be pleased to learn that 

 Professor Baldwin Spencer, M.A., one of our former presidents, 

 and long actively connected with the Club, has been nominated 

 by the Council of the Royal Society of London for election as a 

 Fellow of the Society. He has also been elected an Hon. Cor- 

 responding Member of the Anthropological Institute of London. 



Messrs. C. French, F.L.S., D. Le Souef, C.M-Z.S., and A. J. 

 Campbell have been requested by the Department of Agriculture 

 to act as a Board to inquire into the merits of the different 

 suggestions s^nt in for the destruction of sparrows, in response 

 to the reward offered by the Borung Shire Council. 



Mr. C. French, jun., has received promotion in his department, 

 having been appointed Assistant Government Entomologist. 



We have to congratulate Mr. H. P. C. Ashworth, one of our 

 former hon. secretaries, whose health unfortunately prevents him 

 from at present taking an active part in natural history work, on 

 being, along with a fellow-officer in the Railway Department, the 

 winner of the first prize in the competition for designs for the new 

 Flinders-street Railway Station, Melbourne. 



Mr. J. T. Gillespie writes from Brisbane to say that his health 

 has been much improved by his trip to the north. While in 

 Townsville he met Mr. E. M. Cornwall, one of the early members 

 of the Club, who desired to be remembered to Melbourne friends. 



Among the members of the first Victorian Contingent for the 

 South African war was Private Lindsay Inglis, a former member 

 of the Club. During the engagement in which Major Eddy was 

 killed he was unfortunate enough to have his knee and leg 

 shattered, but had sufficiently recovered to be invalided home 

 with the first batch of returned soldiers. 



Mr. Donald Macdonald, the talented war correspondent and 

 lecturer, was some years ago noted for his natural history sketches. 

 These were afterwards collected and published under the title of 

 " Gum Boughs and Wattle Blossom," and being of a distinctly 

 local character, are worthy of perusal by every nature lover. 



