THE GEELONG NATURALIST. R13 
complished we shall still be confronted with that profound and 
mysterious impulse which directs, regulates, and guides this 
wondrous movement—we call it instinct, but to me it appears a 
wondrous display of the wisdom and power of the mighty Creator. 
SRF UMMA BR ANP RFRA ANAN ERR URBAN OR? 
THE ANNUAL CONVERSAZIONE OF THE UNIVERSITY 
SCIENCE CLUB. 
By rue Rev. W. Wrirrraws, F.L.S., Hon. Corresponding Member. 
Tur Conversazione was held on Friday night, 29th April, which 
proved to be so very wet that the curiosity, or enthusiasm, as the 
. case might be, of the members and their friends was severely 
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tested. By the courtesy of one of the Professors, tickets were 
placed at my disposal, which I gladly accepted. 
Very conspicuously placed were some excellent models of 
specimens of the extinct fauna, reduced to a twelfth of the real 
size. There were the Pterodactylus, Labyrintholn, Megalosaurus, 
Ichthyosaurus, and two species of Plesiosaurus. ^ With the cuts 
representing these animals all readers in Geology are familiar, but the 
models are a much more graphic method of teaching their shape. To 
whose learning and ingenuity these models are due was not 
anywhere stated, but they were a marked feature of the exhibits 
in the hall. Close beside them was a large fossil of Belenostomus 
Sweeti. 
There was a miscellaneous collection of ores and other minerals, 
about which I noticed nothing at all special, though the collection 
had of course teaching value. There was also an exhibit of assaying 
processes similar to those found in the museums of our Victorian 
Schools of Mines, showing die cupels, scorifiers, and other apparatus 
used in assaying. Some of the cases contained fossil and other 
specimens of mollusca, vertebrata, aleyonaria, serpule. Ranged 
on a stage in the centre of the room were specimens of the fauna 
of Australia—comprising birds, such as the Psittacide, Strigide, 
Raptores, Dacelg and various waterfowl; while, sharing the same 
stage were marsupials, with a gigantic Emu keeping watch over the 
whole. A good assay balance of most convenient form was 
peeled and we were informed that the y}y of a grain would turn 
the scale. 
