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" The Club year had a good send-off at the annual meeting. 

 This usually formal business meeting was made attractive by 

 the addition of a general exhibition of natural history speci- 

 mens, to the success of which a large number of the members 

 contributed. His Excellency the Governor-General, Sir 

 Ronald Munro Ferguson, K.C.M.G., himself a member of the 

 Club, attended the meeting, and, in addition to unveihng the 

 honour board so generously donated by Messrs. J. Gabriel and 

 P. R. H. St. John, made a close examination of the individual 

 exhibits, and showed genuine interest in this demonstration 

 of the Club's varied operations. 



" Throughout the year, with the exception of the month of 

 February, the monthly meetings have been held regularly, 

 the one omission being due to the Board of Health's restrictions 

 prohibiting public gatherings on account of the prevailing 

 epidemic of influenza. 



" These monthly meetings have maintained the standard so 

 long upheld by the Club in regard to scientific interest, variety 

 of subjects, and popular character. The attendances have 

 averaged between 50 and 60 persons each month. It has 

 always been considered of paramount importance to encourage 

 members at these meetings to place on view specimens of 

 interest, and there has been no lack of exhibits during the past 

 year. Brief explanatory notes have greatly enhanced the 

 value of this part of the programme. Lectures have been 

 delivered and papers read dealing with botany, entomology, 

 geology, meteorology, ornithology, and zoology. Several of 

 these were illustrated by excellent lantern views and diagrams. 

 The authors' names and titles of their lectures and papers are 

 as follows : — Mr. J. Hatch, lecture (illustrated), ' The Bird-Life 

 of Macquarie Island ' ; Dr. Griffith Taylor, B.E., B.A., F.G.S., 

 lecture (illustrated), ' Science in Antarctica ' ; Mr. F. Chapman, 

 A.L.S., lecture (illustrated), ' Geological History of Australian 

 Plants : Mesozoic Flora.' Papers. — Mr. Thomas Steele, 

 ' Tracks of the Garden Snail ' ; Mr. F. P. Dodd, ' An Ento- 

 mologist's Trip to New Guinea ' ; Mr. F. E. Wilson, ' An 

 Ornithologist's Notes in the Mallee ' ; Mr. J. W. Audas, F.L.S., 

 ' Nature in the Serra Range ' ; Mr. J. Gabriel, ' Destruction of 

 Mutton-Birds at Phillip Island ' ; Mr. F. G. A. Barnard, ' Notes 

 on a Trip to Western Australia ' ; Mr. H. B. Williamson, 

 ' Notes on the Census of the Victorian Flora ' ; Mr. A. H. S. 

 Lucas, M.A., ' A Week Among the Seaweeds at Portsea ' ; 

 Mr. J. Booth, M.C.E., B.Sc, 'About Pet Peter, a Flying 

 Phalanger.' Your committee expresses its thanks to the con- 

 tributors named. 



" The Club excursions, always regarded as a special feature 

 of its many activities, still continue their popularity. The 



