1 82 Field Naturalists' Cluh — Proceedings. [vXx'xxiv. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



The president welcomed Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Weeks, of 

 Gosford, N.S.W., to the meeting, stating that the Club had 

 been greatly indebted to them for supplies of flowers on the 

 occasion of the recent Patriotic Exhibition of Wild-flowers. 

 Mr. Weeks, in briefly returning thanks, expressed the pleasure 

 of his wife and himself at being able to be present at a monthly 

 meeting of the Club. 



The chairman drew attention to the notice in the Naturalist 

 stating that the committee would greatly appreciate the 

 services of any of the members who would take shorthand 

 notes of the monthly meetings in order that full and correct 

 details might be secured for publication. 



The president also called attention to the proposed ex- 

 hibition of specimens to take place at the annual meeting on 

 loth June next, which would be open to the general pubHc. 

 A number of leaders in different branches had signified their 

 willingness to act as organizers, and it now remained for the 

 general body of the members to make the display a success. 

 He said that, though it was primarily intended to exhibit Vic- 

 torian specimens, others would be accepted in limited 

 quantities. 



NOTES ON EXHIBITS. 



Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L.S., drew attention to his exhibit of 

 the bark and timber of a giant eucalypt from the Beenak 

 Forest. 



Mr. C. Daley, F.L.S., drew attention to some photographs 

 exhibiting the "rough character of the country in the vicinity 

 of the Wonnangatta River, North Gippsland, which has 

 recently come into prominence in the daily press. 



Mr. E. Wilson called attention to his exhibit of seventeen 

 species of longicorn beetles taken on a Manna (mm. Eucalyptus 

 viminalis, in his own garden at East Malvern. 



PAPER READ. 



I. By Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L.S., entitled " The Tall Trees of 

 Australia." 



The author said that a statement had recently been put 

 forth by the American Museum of Natural History claiming to 

 have in America the tallest and biggest trees in the world, and 

 twitted Australia with having recorded sizes which, when put 

 to " the ultimate test — ^the tape measure," shrank before it, 

 leaving the Sequoia the monarch of all trees. In the Annual 

 Report of the State Forests Department of Victoria for 1910 

 some account had been given of the tall trees of Victoria, and he 

 desired to remind members of the facts there stated. He had 

 no doubt that the tallest and biggest trees of to-day arc the 

 Sequoias of California. The Americans had preserved their 

 marvellous specimens of the vegetable kingdom, wliilc ours 



