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THE TASMANIAN NATURALIST. 
H Hew Chiton* 
By W. L. MAY. 
YX//HILST at the Club’s outing at Bellerive on the 12th February, 
vir: 1910, Miss Shoobridge showed me a Chiton just taken from 
beneath a stone (I afterwards found three more), it had an unfamiliar 
appearance but 1 provisionally placed it as a variety of our well known 
C. ?iov ce-pollan dice until it could be more carefully studied. However, 
it has now proved to be an interesting addition to our list, viz., Chiton 
quoyi , Desk, a well known New Zealand species. It is true that Tenison- 
Woods in his Census, 187S, catalogues it, but without comment or 
habitat, and for want of any confirmation it has been dropped by later 
workers We can now happily replace it in the list on an enduring 
basis. It is remarkable that such a conspicuous species (the largest 
specimen being inches in length) should have so long escaped 
detection, it is probably very local, and perhaps confined to the immediate 
vicinity of Bellerive Bluff. Such a discovery should be an incentive to 
our young naturalists to leave ‘ no stone unturned ’ during future 
excursions. 
Book Hotice. 
^ CSjtOME Wild Flowers of Tasmania’ is the title of an excellent 
little book of 120 pages, by L. Rodway, Government Botanist, 
in which the flowering plants of Tasmania are brought before young 
botanists in a chatty and thorough manner. Numerous illustrations 
from photographs by Miss Olive Barnard make the book most helpful, 
and the book should be known by heart from cover to cover by all 
interested in nature study. 
publications Received. 
HE following are the names of Journals received in exchange for 
the ‘ Tasmanian Naturalist’:— 
‘ Records of the Australian Museum,’ Sydney. 
‘ Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland.’ 
‘ Publications from the National Herbarium,’ Melbourne. 
