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THE WOMBAT. 



All common where water is 

 plentiful. 



117. Black Swan 



118. Magpie Goose 



119. Mountain Duck 



120. Black ,, 



121. Australian Teal 



122. Pink-eyed Duck 



123. Musk ,, 



124. Australian Pelican 



125. Australian Cormorant 



126. White-breasted ,, 



127. Hoary-headed Grebe/' 



128. Black-throated ,, 7 



The names used here are taken from Mr. A. J. Campbell's 

 list as published in the Geelong Naturalist of June, 1894. 

 The birds mentioned have been identified by me without any 

 doubt, and are found in the district between Longerenong and 

 Warracknabeal. 



Joseph A. Hill. 



TONING AND FIXING. 



(Abstract of a paper read before the Gordon College A. P. A., 



13/5/98.) 



By J. H. Harvey. 



(Continued.) 



Before continuing the paper, the following <?mito in the first 

 portion — Wombat, Vol. III. No. 4 — must be pointed out : — 



Page 79 — second paragraph. By a printer's error liborate 

 of soda and borax are made to appear as though they were 

 distinct salts, whereas they are actually two names for the 

 same substance. 



In the same clause the words " as ever " should have 

 been inserted after the words " good and active." 



Having briefly explained in a popular manner the action 

 of the constituents of the toning bath as far as they are known, 

 it is time to proceed to the practical part of the paper and 

 discuss the practice of toning. 



In the toning of prints before fixing, it is requisite that no 

 soluble silver salts, or at any rate very little, should remain in 

 the paper, and the removal of these salts is the object of wash- 

 ing before toning. In the case of ready sensitised albuminised 

 papers and the various printing out papers that are now so 

 extensively employed, the washing also has the effect of 



