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who were unacquainted with the aims and objects of the Club, 

 and resulted in the addition of several of the delighted public 

 to our ranks. Your committee is deeply grateful to the 

 members of the excursion party to the Grampians, which, 

 headed by members of the Club, helped so materially in pro- 

 viding exhibits. To the members of the Microscopical Society 

 of \^ictoria credit must be given for having made probably 

 the finest and most interesting display of microscopic objects 

 ever seen in Australia. The final financial result of the 

 exhibition was the handing of a cheque for £131 6s. lod. to 

 the Y.M.C.A. 



"The interest of the montlxly meetings has been well main- 

 tained, and the papers read have been quite up to the standard 

 of pre\nous years. Fourteen papers were read, three of which 

 were illustrated by lantern views. The authors and titles 

 were as follow: — Mr. J. W. Audas, 'A Botanist in the Port- 

 land District ' ; Mr. F. G. A. Barnard, ' Some Account of Dr. 

 Xeumayer's Journeys in Victoria ' ; Mr. C. Daley, F.L.S., 

 ', Alpine Gippsland ' (illustrated); Mr. H. W. Davey, F.E.S., 

 ' Upsetting the Balance of Nature ' ; Mr. J. H. Harvey, 

 A.R.I.V.A., ' A Holiday Trip to Jenolan Caves, New South 

 Wales ' (illustrated) ; Mr. G. A. Keartland. ' Bird Life on Fraser 

 Island, Gippsland Lakes ' ; Misses Nethercote and Johnston, 

 ' Notes on a Trip from Walhalla to Baw Baw ' ; Mr. O. W. 

 Rosenhain, ' A Thousand Miles on the River Murray ' (illus- 

 trated) ; Mr. J. Searle. 'The Pond and its Inhabitants'; Mr. 

 P. Sharman, B.Sc, ' The Internal Structure of Some Aus- 

 tralian Orchids ' ; Mr. Eland Shaw, M.R.C.S., ' Australian 

 Blattida:;, Part II.' ; Mr. P. R. H. St. John, ' Notes on the 

 Growth of Eucalyptus viminalis ' ; Dr. C. S. Sutton, ' A Sketch 

 of the Flora of Keilor Plains ' ; Mr. C. A. Topp, LS.O., M.A., 

 ' Impressions of the Wild-flowers of South- Western Australia.' 

 In addition to these, Mr. A. S. Kenyon, C.E., of State Rivers 

 and Water Supply, gave an illustrated lecture on the Mallee 

 and its characteristics, on which he is undoubtedly a recognized 

 authority. Classifying the papers by their subject-matter, they 

 may be grouped as follows : — Relating to zoology, 2 ; orni- 

 thology, I ; entomology, i ; botany, 5 ; trips or excursions, 4 ; 

 and general, i. One of the papers — by Mr. H. W. Davey — 

 attracted the attention of the Acting Chief Inspector of Game 

 and Fisheries, and led to some correspondence in the Naturalist. 

 There are many subjects on which papers even of a very simple 

 character would be extremely welcome, and we trust during 

 the coming year some of our more recently elected members 

 will place their experiences before the Club. 



" An attractive list of excursions was drawn up at the 

 commencement of the year, the greater number of which have 



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