158 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
The professor has taken a great many, and he showed some of 
the more remarkable. They included reproductions of photo-: 
graphs of Darwin and Huxley, in which the features were dis- 
tinct and unmistakable, as well as direct photographs of land- 
scapes and people. Even coloured photographs were exhibited, 
and like the rest they were remarkably clearly defined. Not 
only do these plant-eyes see well, but the rays of light, which 
by means of them are focussed on the interior of the leaf, are 
carried to the brain of the plant and affect the subsequent 
movements. It has been long known that the leaves of plants 
move so that they can get the maximum of light. Itis now 
suggested how this movement is made possible, and the process 
is almost identical with the movements of animals. A close 
analysis of the eyes in plants, proves them, moreover, to be 
highly developed organs. Apropos of the above, we would 
recommend our readers to peruse 8. Leonard Bastin’s article, 
“The Intelligence of the Plant,” in the November number of 
The Pall Mall Magazine. 
British Macro-Lertpoprera.—Mr. Lindsay Symmington, of 
Looe, Cornwall, England, is anxious to enter into correspondence 
with an Australian noturalist, with a view to friendly exchange 
of named specimens. Should any of our members _ be desirous 
of obtaining British material for Australian, Mr. Symmington 
would be glad to reciprocate; specimens in papers would be 
preferred. 
Birp anp Burrerriy.—Harly in December I was watching a 
pair of yellow-faced honeyeaters, near my home at Killara, 
feeding an almost full-grown pallid cuckoo. One of the honey- 
eaters gave chase to a common brown butterfly, Heteronympha 
merope, which it captured on the wing and fed to thecuckoo, I 
have never before observed this honeyeater to attack butterflies, 
and it raises a rather interesting point as to whether the foster- 
parent can have any knowledge of the different tastes of its 
cuckoo nestling, for cuckoos will devour several insects which 
no other birds will touch. I shall be glad to hear from any 
member who observes the yellow-faced honeyeater capturing 
butterflies for his own dinner.—L. Harrison. 
AvusTRALIAN Hymenoprera.—Mr. Rowland EH. Turner, F.H.S., 
whom many of our members will remember, has been engaged, 
since he took up his residence in London, in the study of this 
important branch of our native fauna. Two papers en- 
titled “ A Revision of the Thynnidx of Australia” have already 
been published, and others are to follow. This is a branch to 
which many of our country members might advantageously 
apply themselves, not only in collecting specimens but in 
working out the life-history of our native species. The charm 
of a collection lies not only in the classification thereof—though 
that is essential, for one can’t get on without names —but in 
