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THE 
Pictorian Maturvalist: 
Monell Now tl: MARCH 1886. No. 27 
THE FIELD NATURALISTS’ CLUB OF VICTORIA. 
Tue monthly meeting of the Club was held at the Royal Society’s 
Hall, on Monday evening, 8th February 1886. 
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 Club’s library:—‘Select Extra-Tropical Plants,” 
(new edition) from Baron F, von Mueller; ‘Journal of Pharmacy,” 
Vol. I., No. 1., from the Pharmaceutical Society. 
The following persons were elected members of the Club :-—Mrs. 
J. F. Roberts, Messrs. Ei. Hearne, Jno. Hillard, G. A. Keartland, 
and Master James. 
The Annual Conversazione was fixed for Tuesday evening, April 
20th next, and members were asked to bear in mind the preparation 
of exhibits. 
Papers read:—1. By Mr. C. A. Topp, M.A., “Further Notes 
on the Utricularias.”  '{his was supplementary to a paper read by 
him before the Club in July last, and published in the Victorian 
Naturalist, (Vol. 1., page 71.) The former paper referred principally 
to Utricularia lateriflora; in this were given the author’s observations 
on U, dichotoma, the larger Victorian species of this genus. It was 
well illustrated by drawings and nsieroscopic slides of the utricles. 
2. By Mr. F. Reader, on “ The Immigration of Plants.” | After 
giving the various ways by which the immigration of plants may be 
effected, he stated that he had collected at least 300 species of plants 
around Melbourne, which were aliens, and which he thought should 
