THE WOMBAT. 



i to 4 — The Trustees ; Catalogue New York Trade School, 

 1897-8 — The Secretary ; Catalogue Columbia University 1897 

 — The Secretary ; Report and Prospectus Konigl Sachs Tech. 

 Hochschule, Dresden — The Rektor; Paper, Probable Miocene 

 Age at Shelford— Mr. J. F. Mulder; Descriptions of New Birds 

 and Eggs Queensland— Mr. D. Le Souef; Geelong Grammar 

 School Quarterly— The Publisher; Vic. Parliamentary Debates 

 12 Vols. — Mr. F. Shrimpton ; English Grammar 1753 — 

 Geelong West Free Library Committee ; also from the 

 proprietors, first free copies of The Osprey; The Australian 

 Coachbuilder and Saddler; The Australasian Schoolmaster. 



RAINFALL REGISTRATIONS AT GORDON 

 TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOR 1897. 



Month. 



Days of Rain 



Rainfall for 

 Month. 



Days Rain 



Since 1/1/97 



Rainfall 

 Since 1/1/97. 



July 



Aug. 

 Sept. 



16 

 12 



1-84 

 2-46 

 i'54 



70 

 86 

 98 



1473 



17-19 



l8-7 3 



NOTES. 



The Bacchus Marsh Express of 1 1/9/97 relates the follow- 

 ing story : — a rabbit trapper near Ballan had lost a number 

 of his traps, and he could not conceive how so many could be 

 torn up and dragged off by the rabbits. One morning how- 

 ever he arrived in time to see an eagle flying off with a rabbit, 

 with one of his traps attached. He followed the bird up till 

 it deposited its burden in its nest, when he immediately set 

 fire to the tree. When it fell he found no fewer than nine of 

 his traps which had been carried off from time to time. 



The game act passed last year appears to have failed in 

 the principal object for which it was passed, judging by the 

 proceedings in connection with the recent seizure by the 

 Customs department. Some 9000 birds were seized, chiefly 

 ducks, but after obtaining the opinion of counsel on the new 

 bill, the department decided not to go on with the case, and 

 released the birds. 



