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Owing to Mr. T. S. Hall's inability, through illness, to act as 

 leader on Saturday, 8th June, for the excursion from Fairfield to 

 Camberwell, and no other leader being available at short notice, 

 Mr. G. B. Pritchard, F.G.S., invited the members to join an 

 excursion, in conjunction with the geology students from the 

 Working Men's College, along the Yarra, from Victoria-street 

 Bridge to the Johnston-street Bridge. Mr. R. W. Armitage 

 reported that an interesting and instructive description of the 

 geology of the locality was given by Mr. Pritchard, who pointed 

 out many features of special interest met with during the walk. 

 About twelve members took part in what proved to be a very 

 enjoyable outing, though it is regretted several were unaware of 

 the change and proceeded to Fairfield. 



The president, Mr. F. (r. A. Barnard, reported that, in place 

 of the usual field excursion, a conversazione for junior members 

 was held in the Club's rooms on Saturday, ist June. He 

 regretted that the gathering was not quite so successful as on 

 the previous occasion, the attendance being smaller than was 

 anticipated. However, he was pleased to see, among the 

 exhibits shown, a nice collection of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, 

 taken at Beaconsfield by Masters H. and L. Kershaw. He 

 stated that a number of interesting exhibits were shown by senior 

 members, including objects under the microscope, while he had 

 given a short address, pointing out the advantages of making 

 a hobby of nature study, and called attention to work done in 

 tracing out the life-history of a moth by one of the earliest junior 

 members of the Club. 



The hon. librarian reported the receipt of the following dona- 

 tions to the library: — "Memoirs of the Geological Survey of 

 Victoria": No. 4, "The Ballarat East Goldfield," by Prof. J. W. 

 Gregory, D.Sc. ; No. 5, " The Berringa Goldfield," by W. Bara- 

 gwanath, jun. ; " Bulletins of Geological Survey of Victoria" : No. 

 19, " Lauriston-Drummond North Goldfield," and No. 20, "Wal- 

 halla or Thomson River Copper Mine," by W. Baragwanath, jun. ; 

 No. 21, "Mining and Geological Notes of Walhalla and Wood's 

 Point Districts," by E. J. Dunn, F.G.S., and No. 22. " Mount 

 Cudgewa Tinfield," by Prof. Gregory, D.Sc, from the Department 

 of Mines, Melbourne ; Journal 0/ Agriculture of Victoria, vol. v., 

 parts 4 and 5 (April and May, 1907), from Department of Agri- 

 culture, Melbourne ; Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, 

 vol. xviii., parts 4 and 5, from Secretary for Agriculture, Sydney ; 

 " Annual Report, Department of Mines, New South Wales, 1906," 

 from Secretary for Mines, Sydney ; Geelong Natu^ralist, April, 

 1907, from the Geelong Field Naturalists' Club; "Index to 

 Transactions of Royal Society of South Australia," vol. i.-xxiv., 

 1877-1900, from the Society; Tasmanian Naturalist, vol. i.. 

 No. I, from the Tasmanian Field Naturalists' Club ; " Records 

 of Canterbury Museum," vol. i., No. i, from the Trustees, Christ- 



