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THE FIELD NATURALISTS’ CLUB OF VICTORIA. 
Tur monthly meeting of the Club was held at the Royal Society’s 
Hall, on Monday evening, 14th December, 1885. 
The president, the Rev. J. J. Halley occupied the chair, and 
about sixty members and visitors were present. 
The hon. librarian acknowledged the receipt of the following 
donations to the library:—‘‘ Annual Reports of Ballarat School of 
Mines for 1882 and 1883,” from Mr. F. M. Krausé; “ Plants of 
New South Wales, arranged according to Baron von Mueller’s 
census,” by Dr. Woolls, F.L.8., from the author; also Kirby’s 
“ Hlementary Text Book of Entomology” and Howe’s “ Atlas of 
Hlementary Biology,” which have been added by purchase. 
The hon. secretary read a short account of the Club excursion to 
Murrumbeena, on Saturday, November 22nd, which had been fairly 
attended, but no specimens of any nete were obtained. 
The following persons were elected members of the Club:—Mrs. 
R. W. Hooke, Messrs. W. Ball, Edw. Crellin, C. Morris, M. 
Trickett, and Master L. Inglis. 
Papers were promised for the next meeting by Mr. C. A. Topp, 
M.A., entitled “‘Further notes on the Utricularia,” and Mr. F. 
Reader, on the “ Immigration of Plants.” 
Papers read:—1. Mr. A. J. Campbell read a paper entitled 
“* Oological Notes,” in which he described the eges of the following 
birds which bad been recorded for the first time during the season 
just closed. The radiated goshawk, the red-tailed finch, the white- 
vented wood-swallow, the yellow honey-eater, the uniform-coloured 
honey-eater, the black-headed honey-eater, the white-headed sitella, 
the scaly-breasted lorikeet, the Australian cassowary, and the knot. 
2. Mr. C. A. Topp read for Mr. J. Dennant, of Hamilton, “ A 
Geological Sketch of South-West Victoria,” Part IJ., describing 
the structure of the different ranges of the Grampian series. The 
writer stated that their age was difficult to determine, owing to the 
absence of fossils; and showed the sandy ridges of the County of 
