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means. Our work here should be more than a pastime. The 

 health and pleasure obtained in the field or in the study are 

 only incidental. Our efforts as a club are, in the main, directed 

 to a career of usefulness. The demand for the Club's journal 

 by the scientific branches of pubhc departments, and by 

 universities and kindred societies, bears witness to the success 

 which the effort has achieved. Xor does this support of the 

 Club mean neglect of the great cause which at j)resent occupies 

 the attention of the whole civilized world. A fair proportion 

 of our members have taken on the risks of war, wliile a larger 

 proportion is experiencing anxiety, l)ereavement, or sorrow 

 just as fully as those in other walks of life. Your committee 

 trusts that the Club as a whole will, in the coming year, by 

 organization and work, be able to repeat its successful enter- 

 tainment of the public and further assist in augmenting those 

 funds which contribute so largely to the comfort and support 

 of our defenders abroad. 



" On behalf of the committee, 

 " F. Pitcher, President. 

 " ^oth May, 1917." "A. D. Hardy, Acting Hon. Secretary. 



On the motion of Mr. H. Whitmore, seconded by M'\ E, 

 Cox, the report was adopted. 



The president referred to the work of the Plant Names Com- 

 mittee, and said that copies of the third portion of the 

 " Vernacular Names of \'ictorian Plants " were available foi 

 members. 



Dr. C. S. Sutton stated that the list was being submitted to 

 Mr. J. H. Maiden, (iovernment Botanist of New South Wiiles. 



FINANCIAL STATEMENT. 



The hon. treasurer, Mr. G. Coghill, read the financial state- 

 ment for 1916-17, which was as follows : — 



Receipts. 

 To Balance, 30th April. 1916 ... ... ... ^49 4 8 



,, Subscriptions — 



Ordinary Members ... /,"ii8 lo o 

 Country Members ... 27 19 o 



Associates ... ... o iS 9 



.^147 7 9* 



Victorian Naturalist — 



Subscriptions and Sales 19 4 5 



Advertisements ... 3 '5 o 



Reprints ... ... i 14 



J 



24 13 8 



,, Sales of Badges, Photographs, &c. ... 230 



,, Interest, Savings Bank and War Loan ... 1 12 1 



175 16 6 



Carried forward ... ... ... £22^ ' 2 



•Subscriptions ;— Arrears /2S 15s.; 1916-17. ^113 6s. 9^. : 1917-18, ^'5 



6s.— total ;^I47 7s. 9d. 



