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THE TASMANIANrocks were examined, and clearly explained by Dr.
Noetling. Numerousques,tions were replied to by the leader,and
members expressed themselves aswell plea-sed with the information
imparted. This excursion was highly succe.sfu!.
A general collecting outing was helda t South Arm on November 30
,per motor
NATURALIST.launch. Members separated immediate
~ y o n !a-llIding, s'o'me dredge'CL !a- sma1:l la goon for
ent.omnstraca.; others collectedpla.nts or insects, while a few
went overto the roc'ks towards the Derwent l ight.house and found
some little penguinsnesting. The lncality, however, wasnot a good
collecting one, ,thoug'l thetrip proved most enjoyable.
'l96e fBandieoot.BY P. LOIC1(JWOOD, F.L.S. (X.S.W.)
.During Ill,}' ' ~ - h o r t hut vcry p r o f i : t l l i h ~
estay of 'fifteen UlO'nths in th,e Patersoniadi"tr.it:t-w,h,j('h i,
situated on theScot.bllaJcwa,l, H,t the foot of :\IountArth.ur,
:lnJ about I i miles frolll L::tllnces ton-l bel'i1llle
in't-erest,ed in the!potl-Clhed llla-tllLUai..; fouwi in that
loea-lity,{:m! lIone seemed llIor,e interesting toTIle ti.Hlll the
U:lll:licoot. The 'imntlicoot!belongs to the ol'ller 1Ia[, ,upalia
and thej'enns l 'erameies, of which Tasmaniapoor;eso;e,,, ,t wo
,pedes o l l l y ~ P e r a l 1 1 e : l e sohesula and Pem.nH'les
guuui-but thereare >lib-out a llozen different species ranging
o\"
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THE TASMANIANi t lack,,:[ something which nature had'prodded fo
r these iO\\'lv creattLl'e,;-thebUl'rowing in th(' earth. ,. I
often accom.[,anied lily little pet out in the o-pen, andi t W 'H
most ple'15ing to observe th e won(!erful a"la.ptability with which
its pigJikp ';!lout ',vould loe forced under th et 'arth. J WHiI
ven ' S01T\' to find thu.t11 fter :1 week 01 ' t w ~ m,v p ~ o r
gunni grewduller 11 nel weaker, and one morning t,he'little 011e
was foumi to be quite l i f e h ~ 5 s ;he i.., no w i l l a r a r ~
e of Taslnaniun n la l l l ,ma],; in tll" La:lIlce"ton }luseulll.
Somelittle time after I had the pleasure ofn,reh'ing a pr'2,ent 0;
tw o very tiny lic.tlegllnni. wllwh hat! not IYeen clothed
verylong, tl l . mother having got into on e oftho . b:lI'barO'lls
spring traps which coun,t,],y boys are eo fond of setting, and
t,hu"' torturing many illnocent Eves. All thatwas possible was done
fo r these"ba,by bandies," but they pined away,and also form case
specimens in
NATURALIST.the Launceston :MuseuID. I amsU!'e my friends of the
Tasmanian
~ , a t u r a h s t s ' Club will ag'l'"e witb me insaying that
we c,Ln learn lllany a valuable le'5wn from suell lowlv creatures
ofour fOTest, s,hollld pIe-dge onrseive.,to protect our native
fauna in e\'ery pos,;ible way, and put down very firmly
,thecow,arelly crnclty that our poor dumbfriends have to ".utfer
fl'O-lll th,e \vantonhands of t,houg"ltle"" perwlls. ' ' 'henwe
learn to stuu v th e wom['edul life 'lIdha,bits of the 10\;'e1'
creatures we can reciproca te tile ",entiments of the poetess-1
wis:l voucould. have se,en tll'em there .It did my spirit goodTo
see the small things God had ma,deThus eating in t:he wood.I hope
later on to forward i t f.ew morcremarks on other little animals I
had thepleaslIl"> of b ~ c o m i n g acquainted with,
eamp-out of toe 'l.9asmanian '3ield :/Yaturalistson fBruny
Island.lilY ICILLVE E. LORD.
Tt ,wu,s uedde'd to ,ho.}d .the 80vembercamp of the dUll> at
Po 'd :Bay, BI'unyJ,"hnti. Th'i" 'ba v is on Ithe ,ch:annel sideo,f
th e bLml, a Ifttle ,to the ne>l"t'h ,of It,hei5.th,:lhl''';
bet,w,cpn XOl,bh un'd , ~ O U t l l l 'Bl'uny._l 1',lIlding was
lHa'.le IOn I:'h:burdwy,theHell, and 'bl' :t':lc,tillle
'lJlivrkne:ss Illa'a ,ialUeut he Wilt, , ' were piltc:1H'd am I
elvel"y;thinglVas sl!;IP-.,1 1:I'l"". A'Hel' teu, Ip-la,nti
'wel'.ed.i;!l'u'sspj, all,l IV
