895. 
ATURALIST" BE ADDRESSED TO THE EDITOR AT THE 
GoRDON CoLLEGE. Other communications to be addressed 
to the Hon. Secretary, Mr. A. Wilson, 74 Ryrie Street. 
NOTES. 
WE regret to have to record the death of Mr. J. Goodlett on 
the 27th of December last. Mr. Goodlett was an.enthusiastic 
microscopist, and one of the hardest workers in the Club. 
He was also one of the original members of the extinct ** Field 
Naturalists’ Club of Geelong." 
In the printing of the rules in our last issue part of Rule 
5 was unfortunately omitted. It should be corrected thus :— 
between .the words “junior members" and the words 
“members shall be entitled to all privileges” insert ** who 
shall be under the age of 18 years and shall pay a subscription 
of 2/6 per annum. Life members may be elected on the 
payment of five guineas." 
In the last report of the Smithsonian Institution which we 
recently received, there is a magnificent article on ** Scientific 
Taxidermy for Museums," with about fifty illustrations. It 
will well repay perusal by those interested in museum work. 
During the Xmas holidays some excellent botanical work 
was done by two of our members—-Messrs. Mulder & Adcock— 
in the Otway Ranges. The main camp was between the 
Forrest line and the coast on the Pennyroyal Creek. The 
scenery is described as being of ideal beauty, and the scrub in 
places exceedingly thick. Ferns were met with in rich pro- 
fusion, and altogether the place is a perfect paradise for 
botanists. The specimens collected on this and previous trips 
in the Otways number over 400—some of them being recorded 
from this district for the first time. The list compiled by Mr. 
G. H. Adcock, F.L.S., will be shortly printed in this journal. 
. Another excursion from the Club took place at Xmas a 
party visiting Apollo Bay, but as they were only out fora 
week altogether and the weather was severe little could be 
done. The specimens collected were few, the chief ones being 
land-shells Paryphanta (sp), Hadra victorie, Rhytida (sp), and 
Helicarion verneauxit) which were very numerous. An 
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