18 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 
The following office-bearers were elected without opposition:— 
President, Rev. J. J. Halley, Vice-Presidents, Mr. T. A. Forbes- 
Leith and Mr. A. H. S. Lucas, M.A.; Hon. Treasurer, Mr. E. 
Bage; Hon. Librarian, Mr. C. French; Hon. Secretary, Mr. 
F. G. A. Barnard; and Assistant Hon. Secretary, Mr. G. Coghill. 
The ballot for members of Committee resulted as follows— 
Mrs. Dobson, Mrs. J. Simson, Messrs D. Best, J. H. Gathif, 
G. R. Hill, D. LeSouef, and C. A. Topp, M.A. 
A vote of thanks to the retiring office-bearers was carried 
unanimously. 
Mr. C. A. Topp mentioned that two mosses recently found by 
Mr. Tisdall, of Walhalla, had proved to be new to science, and had 
been named after the finder and the locality respectively. 
The following were the principal exhibits:—By Mr. D. Best, a 
box of Fijian insects; by Mr. G. Coghill, orchids in bloom, 
Pterostylis vittata, and P. precox ; by Mr. P. Dattari, orchids in 
bloom, P. nana and P. scabrida, from Brighton, also Mexican 
ferns, Cheilanthes farinosa and Pteris nemoralis; by Mr. H. A. 
Dombrain, nests of weaver-bird, from Elephanta Island, also two 
snake-skins ; by Mr. C. French, exotic Coleoptera, section Cetonide ; 
by Master C. French, land shells; by Master R. Hall, Victorian 
birds’ eggs, and South Australian insects ; by Masters W. H. and 
G. E. Hill, each a case of moths collected since last meeting: by 
Mr. T. Hyland, eggs collected around Colac last season ; by Mr. H. 
Kennon, Nautilus Shells from Brighton, said by Professor MeCoy 
to be the most perfect specimens yet found ; by Mr. T. A. Forbes- 
Leith, podargus, P. strigoides, from N. W. Victoria, also from 
Yan Yean, boo-book owl, Stria ninox, from Werribee, and banded 
stilt, Cladorynchus pectoralis, from Murray River; by Mr. A. H. 
S. Lucas, silver-fish, having abnormal caudal fin, with bifid inferior 
lobe; by Mr. H. W. Milligan, three squirrels, and twenty species of 
birds from Lillydale; by Mr. F. Reader, plants from Studley Park, 
Asperifolee-Epacride@; by Mr. J. F. Roberts, new exotic orchid, 
Phalenopsis Robertsiana. 
After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated, 
SUCCINCT NOTES ON SOME PLANTS FROM NEW 
GUINEA. ; 
By Baron Ferp. von Muetunr, K.C.M.G., M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S 
( Continued.) 
Cycas Scratchleyana.—Leaves glabrous ; their segments charta- 
ceous, flat, rather broad, shining on both sides, hardly or not paler 
