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Identifier: victorian929319751976luca (find matches)
Title: The Victorian naturalist
Year: 1884 (1880s)

Arthur Henry Shakespeare Lucas  (1853–1936)
Alternative names	A.H.S.Lucas; Arthur Henry Shakespeare Luras; A. H. S. Lucas
Description	British botanist and entomologist
Date of birth/death	7 May 1853	10 June 1936
Location of birth/death	Stratford-upon-Avon	Albury
Authority file	: Q2865141 VIAF: 3802231 ISNI: 0000000084178738 LCCN: n81111921 Botanist: A.H.S.Lucas Open Library: OL4506631A WorldCat

Francis George Allman Barnard  (1857–1932)
	Alternative names	Birth name: Francis George Allman Barnard; Barnard; F. G. A. ‎Barnard; Francis Barnard
	Description	Australian-British naturalist, pharmacist, politician, editor and cricketer
	Date of birth/death	1857 / 26 December 1857	1932 / 2 June 1932 / 1 June 1932
	Location of birth/death	Melbourne	Melbourne
	Authority file	: Q3081456 VIAF: 40699264 LCCN: n81089221 NLA: 36356473 WorldCat

Subjects: Natural history Natural history
Publisher: (Melbourne) Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Fig. 4: Ptilinum deflated. Highly magni-fied. The two dark areas at bottom leftand right are part of the eyes. Nominations of FNCY Council Members and Office Bearers FNCV Annual General Meeting willbe on Monday, 10 May, and nominationsmay be received up to that date. Nomi-nations are required for Council members.Council consists of the President, Vice-President, Immediate Past-President, andten other persons. The following officesare open for nomination: President,Vice-President, Secretary, Minute Secre-tary, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, Sub-scription Secretary/Bookkeeper, Excur- sion Secretary, Librarian, AssistantLibrarian, Editor. Such office-bearersmight be members of Council or not.If you nominate a person for a particularoffice and he would also like to be aCouncil member, you must make theadditional nomination of him as aCouncil member. Think now of the people you wouldlike to see on our governing body, andask them if they will accept nomination. March/April 65
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First Record in Victoria of Rice Cut GrassLeersia orysiodes (L.) Swartz by Margaret G. Corrick, Botany Group, FNCV On 3 March, 1974 two collectionsof Leersia oryzoides (L.) Swartz(Rice Cut Grass) were made from theYarra River about 2 kilometres down-stream from Bend of Islands near thesite for the wall of the proposed YarraBrae Dam. It was also observed onthe same day at Bend of Islands. Yickery (1975: page 276) recordsthis species as a rare introductionto Austraha, the only N.S.W. collec-tion being from Leeton in 1959. Thereare no Australian collections of thisspecies in the National Herbarium,Melbourne and apparently it has notbeen recorded previously in Victoria.It is native to North America,Europe and Japan. It is a strong-growing, rhyzomicperennial forming large, loose tufts orpatches. The culms are up to 1.5metres long and have conspicuoushairy nodes; the leaves are a brightyellow-green, flat, 8-30 cm long,5-15 mm wide, with scabrous margins.The upper leaf sheaths are also scab-

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