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Lowan to be the remains of former sandstone ranges. His remarks 
were clearly explained by means of a carefully prepared geological 
sketch map. 
The paper gave rise to considerable discussion, principally relating 
to the question of the rising or sinking of the Victorian coast-line. 
Owing to the unavoidable absence of Dr. Dobson, and Mr. F. RB. 
Godfrey, their papers were postponed until the next meeting. 
Mr. C. French, F.L.S., contributed a short note on two rare 
humming-birds from Mounts Chimborazo and Pinchinea, South 
America, where they are found about 1000 feet above the snow line. 
The following were the principal exhibits of the evening:—By 
Mr. F. G. A. Barnard, brown coal and lignite from Lal Lal, 
coleoptera collected at Lal Lal excursion, anda hawk-moth, Sphina 
convolvuli, recently taken at Kew; by Mr. E. Bage, plants collected 
at Lal Lal excursion, also skeleton leaves of native plants prepared 
and presented to the Club by Mrs. Lewellin; by Miss F. M. Campbell, 
five kinds of fossil wood from Glenmaggie, Gippsland; by Mr. A. J. 
Campbell, new eggs in illustration of his paper, four rare hawks’ 
and other eggs taken during his recent excursion to Northern 
Queensland, a cassowary skin and other rare Queensland birds, 
photographs of Townsville tribe of aboriginals; by Mr. J. P. 
Chirnside, geological specimens from Denver and Colorado, U.8.A.; 
by Mr, A. Coles, two fish stuffed by a new process whereby the 
colour is retained in the specimens; by Mr. P, Dattari, growing 
ferns Lomaria lanceolata, Woodwardia aspera, and W. caudaia, 
from Greensborough, and Aspediuwm héspidwm,from Warragul; by Mr. 
C. French, the rare humming-birds Oreotrochilus Chimborazo, and 
O. Pinchinca from the Andes; by Mr. T. A. Forbes-Leith, four 
American birds, the Maryland yellow-throat, a pair of Canadian 
nuthatches, Svtta Canadensis,a downy woodpecker, Pzcus pubescens, 
from U.S.A., and an Amazon oriole, also a specimen of the wild 
canary from Africa, compared with one of the domesticated birds; by 
Mr. R. Hall, larva of emperor moth; by Mr H. Kennon, stalactites 
and stalagmites from caves at Portland; by Mr. F. Reader, grasses 
from Studley Park; by Mr. F. Spry, Victorian lepidoptera; by Mr. 
QO. A. Sayce, microscopic parasites found on neuropterous insects 
taken at Lal Lal. 
After the usual conversazione the meeting terminated. 
FUNGI OF NORTH GIPPSLAND. 
By Henry Tuomas Tispauu, F.L.S. 
(Read before Field Naturalists’ Club of Victoria, 11th Nov., 1885.) 
Parner 
In this paper I purpose to contrast the two great families of 
Sporifera and Sporidifera by comparing two sub-orders, one from 
