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A2ustraltan Paturalist. 
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Orpinary Muetinc.—The Ordinary Monthly Meeting was 
held at 82 Pitt Street on Thursday evening, October 3rd, 1907, 
the President, Mr. 8. J. Johnston, B.A., B.Sc, in the chair. 
Lecrure.—An interesting lecture, illustrated by lantern 
views and numerous specimens, on “Some Fossils in the 
Neighbourhood of Sydney,” was delivered by Mr. W. S. Dun. 
Orpwwary Meeting.—The Ordinary Monthly Meeting was 
held at 82 Pitt Street on Thursday evening, November 7th, 
1907, the President, Mr. S. J. Johnston, B.A., B.Sc., in the 
chair. 
Lecture.—Mr. T. Harvey Johnston, B.Sc., lectured on 
“Flukes and Tapeworms,” tracing the development of the 
parasites through their various hosts, and illustrating his re- 
marks by means of lantern slides. 
Orpinary Muerine.—The Ordinary Monthly Meeting was 
held at 82 Pitt Street on Thursday evening, December ith, 
1907, Mr W. J. Rainbow, F L.S., F..S., in the chair. 
Lecrurn.—Mr. Edwin Cheel read a highly interesting paper, 
“Notes on some Australian Lichens,” and, in concluding, 
presented to the Club Library a copy of his manuscript 
catalogue of upwards of 2000 species of Lichens contained in 
the National Herbarium, together with bibliographies of the 
lichenology of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands: 
TasMANIAN Musrum.—Mr. Robert Hall, F..S., O.M.ZS., 
who has been appointed to filf the position of Curator to the 
Tasmanian Museum; in the place of the late Mr. Alexander 
Morton, assumed the duties of his new office on January Ist. 
Mr. Hall goes to Tasmania with a good reputation, and the 
island State is to be congratulated on obtaining the services of 
so distinguished a naturalist. Mr. Hall occupied a position on 
the staff of the Queensland Museum at one time, but owing to 
ascheme of drastic retrenchment in al] government depart- 
ments in the Northern State, was compelled to retire. As a 
traveller and writer, Mr. Hall has achieved considerable 
celebrity. His visit to Kerguelen Island was most successful 
from a scientific standpoint, as was also his tour through 
Siberia. Among his principal literary productions are ‘“ A 
Key to the Birds of Australia,’ and “The Useful Birds of 
Southern Australia.” 
