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THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 
Nominations for office-bearers for the year 1885-6 were then 
received, in each case the retiring office-bearers being the only 
persons nominated, except for hon. treasurer, for which Mr. Bage 
was nominated instead of Mr. Matthias. Three ladies and eight 
gentlemen were proposed as members of committee, being, Mrs. 
Dobson, Mrs. J. Simson, Miss Campbell, and Messrs Best, Gatliff, 
Hill, Le Sotief, Prince, Topp, Watts, and Wisewould. Mr. Best 
gaye notice that he would move at the annual meeting that the 
number of members of committee be increased from five to eight. 
Mr. J. E_ Prince, on behalf of Messrs Field and Son, of 
Birmingham, presented the Club with a valuable microscope for 
the use of the members, for which a hearty vote of thanks was 
tendered to him. 
The hon, sec. announced that at the annual conyersazione to take 
place on the 29th inst, lecturettes would be delivered by the Rev. 
A. W. Cresswell, M. A., on “The Extinct Animals of Australia;” 
and by himself on “ Forms and Metamorphoses of Insects.” 
Papers read:—By Messrs Gregory and Lucas ‘“ Notes of an 
overland trip to Wilson’s Promontory,” Part I. Mr. Gregory read 
the descriptive part and Mr. Lucas the Natural History notes of the 
journey between the Trafalgar Railway Station and Mr. Mille’s 
station at Yanakie, about two thirds of the distance travelled 
The following were the principal exhibits of the evening:—By 
Mr. G. Coghill, five orchids in bloom, obtained on excursion to 
Gipsy Village, viz., Eriochilus autumnalis, E. fimbriatus, Pterostylis 
aphylla, P. nana, and Prasophyllum Archert; by Mr. C. French, 
260 species of Australian Coleoptera, family Buprestide, also 
orchids in bloom Eriochilus fimbriatus and Pterostylis aphylla; by 
Master C, French, carved gourd, from New Guinea; by Mr. G. R. 
Hill and Masters Hill, Victorian lepidoptera; by Mr. D. Le Soiief, 
living slow-worm; by Mr. T. A. Forbes-Leith, five British Birds, 
Rook, Common Gull, Black-headed Gull, Curlew, and Oyster- 
catchers, also pair of Opossum mice ; and by Mr. F. Reader, plants 
from Studley Park, (orders Apocynee, Solanacee). 
After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 
FIELD NATURALISTS’ CLUB OF VICTORIA. 
ANNUAL CONVERSAZIONE. 
Tan Fifth Annual Conversazione of the Club was held at the 
Royal Society’s Hall on Wednesday evening, 29th April, 1885, 
