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Chalmers showed herself the posessor of a deep contralto 
voice in a plaintive Scotch ballad. Miss Edson also sang an 
exceedingly pretty song. Mr. Robert MacMillan in a hu- 
morous and instructive speech, commended the exhibitors 
for their displays, and trusted that the spread of education 
would be helped thereby. 
NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
AppITIONS ‘To LIBRARY.—The Emu, vol. viii., Part 4, 
April, 1909; Victorian Naturalist, vol. xxv., No. 12, April, 
1909; do., vol. xxvi., No. 1, 1909; Proceedings of the Royal 
Society of Victoria, vol. xxi., Part 2; Agricultural Gazette, 
vol. xx., April and May, Parts 4 and 5; Tasmanian Wild 
Flowers, Tasmanian Field Naturalists’ Club; Easter Camp 
Out, Tasmanian Field Naturalists’ Club; Bulletin Museum 
National d’Historie Naturelle, Part 6, 1908; Note on an 
Abnormal Development on Leaves of Prunus Cerasus, by 
Bertha Rees; Contributions to the Flora of Australia (two 
parts), by Alfred J. Ewart, D.Sc., Ph.D., F.L.S.; Biolo- 
gical Survey of Wilson’s Promontory; also, Some Notes on 
the Flora of Victoria, same author; On Opuntia Santa-Rita, 
a Species of Cactus of Ornamental Value, by J. N. Rose, 
Associate Curator, Division of Plants, U.S. National Mus- 
eum; Two New Species of Abronia, by Anton Heimerl, Uni- 
versity of Vienna; Preliminary Notice of a Collection of 
Recent Crinoids, from the Philippine Islands, by Austin 
Hobart Clark, Collaborator, Department of Marine Inverte- 
brates, U.S. National Museum; Toowoomba Canary Grass; 
also, Nitrogen and Nitragin, both by Alfred J. Ewart, D.Sc., 
etc. ; Technological Museums, Annual Report for 1907; Re- 
cording Census of the Victorian Flora, by Alfred J. Ewart, 
D.Sc., etc., 1908; also by same author, The Changes of 
Names in the ‘‘Recording Census.”’ 
Witp Lirr PRESENTATION SocteTy.~-A_ society which 
should commend itself to all naturalists has been established, 
and promises to be highly successful. The name of this or- 
ganisation is ‘‘The Wild Life Preservation Society of Aus- 
tralia.”? Its object are the preservation of all forms of wild 
life in Australia, by the development of public interest in 
its beauties, economic uses, and scientific value, by discour- 
aging the wanton or promiscuous destruction of any form of 
mammal or bird, by accepting affiliation from any society 
or corporation in Australasia for the furtherance of the fore- 
