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J. H. Maiden in forwarding some of the choicest representatives 

 of the flora of New South Wales ; and in once more placing on 

 record the valuable assistanrc rendered by Mrs. A. D. Hardy, 

 Misses E. Bainbridge, B. Hall, M. Mimtz, E. M'Adam, A. and 

 S. Sutton, and others, during the continuance of the show. 

 To the members who actively associated themselves with the 

 venture a formal expression of thanks in this report is not 

 deemed necessary : the consciousness of having materially 

 assisted to bring about the splendid result achieved, and of 

 having thereby contributed to the wider publicity of the Club, 

 is assumed to be more highly valued than any encomiums to 

 which your committee might give expression. 



In comparison \\ith the previous year, the nimiber of papers 

 read at the Club's monthly meetings showed a slight advance ; 

 but, whereas only two of the fourteen papers then dealt with 

 were illustrated by lantern slides, nine out of the sixteen papers 

 contributed last year were so popularized. Of the papers 

 read, two were devoted to botany, three each to industrial 

 products, ornithology, and travel, one each to conchology, 

 pond life, and palaeontology, and two to general subjects. In 

 the main, the papers were of a high standard of merit and of 

 undoubted value and interest. The authors and the title of 

 their papers are as follows : — Mr. J. Audas, F.L.S., ' Glimpses 

 en passant on a Trip to Movmt Beenak ' ; Mr. C. L. Barrett, 

 ' Bird Studies with the Camera ' (illustrated) ; Mr. F. 

 Chapman, A.L.S., ' On Some Fossils from the Red Limestone 

 at Grange Burn, near Hamilton, with a Note on a New Species 

 of Bolivina ' (illustrated) ; Mr. L. G. Chandler, ' Some Vic- 

 torian Birds and Their Haunts ' (illustrated) : Miss Amy Fuller, 

 ' Some South African Scenes and Flowers' : Mr. J. H. Gatliff, 

 ' Description of two New Australian Varieties of Cowries ' ; 

 Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L.S., ' Forests of Victoria,' parts i. and ii. 

 (illustrated) ; Mr. R. A. Keble, ' Picric Acid and Grass-Tree 

 Gum ' ; Mr. G. A. Keartland, ' A Study of Birds at Breeding 

 Time' ; Mr. J. G. O'Donoghue, ' Rambles in Raak ' ; Messrs. 

 E. E. Pescott, F.L.S., and C. French, jun., ' A Year Among 

 the Orchids : a Reminiscence ' (illustrated) ; Mr. O. W. Rosen - 

 hain, 'A Naturahst in Java' (illustrated); Messrs. J. 

 Shephard and J. Searle, ' A Visit to the Lakes near Colac and 

 Camperdown ' ; Mr. J. Shephard, ' A Visit to Great Lake, 

 Tasmania ' (illustrated) ; Mr. H. Whitty, ' A Naturalist on 

 the Yorkshire Moors ' (ilhistrated). 



" The thirty-second volume of the Club's journal and 

 magazine, the Victorian Naturalist, has been published and 

 issued to members and to various scientific bodies, libraries, 

 &c., throughout the world, and it can be claimed that the value 

 and merit of its papers, notes, reports, &c., in no way detract 



