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Vol. XI.— No. 3. JUNE, 1894. No. 127. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



The fourteenth annual meeting of the Club was held in the Royal 

 Society's Hall on Monday evening, nth June, 1894. The 

 president, Mr. H. T. Tisdall, F.L.S., occupied the chair, and some 

 60 members and visitors were present. 



REPORT. 



The leader (Mr. C. Frost) reported that the attendance at, and 

 the results of, the excursion to Sassafras Gully, on Queen's Birth- 

 day, 24th May, had been much interfered with by the heavy rain of 

 the previous day. However, an enjoyable day was spent, and in 

 the department of cryptogamic botany good work was done, some 

 fifty species of fungi being noted ; two species, it is expected, will 

 prove new to science on further examination. Regret was ex- 

 pressed at the great damage done to the wonderful natural beauty 

 of the gully by the establishment of the adjacent village settle- 

 ment. 



The meeting for practical work was held on the 28th May, the 

 course in practical botany being continued under the direction of 

 Mr. J. Shephard. The bracken fern (Pteris) was the type studied, 

 and some useful work was done by members making and staining 

 their own sections. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



On a ballot being taken, Messrg. W. M. Hale and J. J. E. 

 Degen were duly elected members of the Club. 



JUVENILE PRIZE COMPETITION. 



The distribution of the prizes to the successful competitors in 

 the Juvenile Prize Competition for Natural History Specimens 

 then took place. 



Baron von Mueller, K.CM.G , kindly attended to distribute 

 the prizes, and in his opening remarks referred to his own early 

 efforts in the paths of science at the age of fifteen. His 

 appropriate and encouraging remarks to each prize-taker in turn 

 were listened to with much interest. 



The following is a list of the prize-takers as adjudged by 

 Messrs. F. G. A. Barnard, C. French, F.L.S., C. Frost, F.L.S., 

 and H. T. Tisdall, F.L.S. :— 



