Cbe Uictorian naturalist 



Vol. XXIV.— No. 4. AUGUST 8, 1907. No. 284. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



The ordinary monthly meeting of the Club was held in the 

 Royal Society's Hall on Monday evening, 8th July, 1907. 



The president, Mr. G. A. Keartland, occupied the chair, and 

 about 55 members and visitors were present. 



ELECTIONS. 



On a ballot being taken, Mrs. Marion Champlin, Barry-street, 

 Kew, was duly elected an ordinary member of the Club. 



librarian's report. 



The hon. librarian acknowledged the following donations to the 

 library : — " Records of the Geological Survey of Victoria," 1907, 

 vol. ii., part i, from the Department of Mines, Melbourne ; The 

 Journal oj xigriculture of Victoria, vol. v., part 6, June, 1907, from 

 Department of Agriculture, Melbourne ; The Emu, vol. vii., part 

 I, July, 1907, from the Australasian Ornithologists' Union; 

 " Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales," vol. 

 viii., part 3, 1907, from the Secretary for Mines, Sydney ; '' Forest 

 Flora of New South Wales," by J. H. Maiden, F.L.S., Govern- 

 ment Botanist, vol. iii., parts 4 and 5, from the Forest Depart- 

 ment, Sydney ; Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, vol. 

 viii., part 6, June, 1907, from Secretary for Agriculture, Sydney ; 

 " Proceedings Linnean Society of New South Wales," vol. xxxii., 

 part I, 1907, from the Society ; " Papers and Proceedings, Royal 

 Society of Tasmania," 1903-5 (issued March, 1906), from the 

 Society ; " Catalogue of the Plants of New Zealand," by T. F. 

 Cheesman, F.L.S., from the Education Department, Wellington ; 

 " Proceedings and Transactions of Nova Scotian Institute of 

 Science," vol. xi., part 2, 1903-4, from the Institute; "Bulletin 

 of Buffalo (U.S.A.) Society of Natural Science," vol. viii.. No. 4, 

 from the Society; "Nature Notes," May, 1907, from the Selborne 

 Society, London ; and " Australian Insects," by W. W. 

 Froggait, F.L.S., Government Entomologist, New South Wales 

 (purchased). 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



Professor A. J. Ewari, D.Sc , Ph.D., gave notice that he would 

 move at the next meeting of the Club — "That with regard to all 

 plants exhibited at the Field Naturalists' Club meetings, or 

 recorded in the Victorian Naturalist as ntw to science, to the 

 Slate, or its districts, at least one specimen of each such plant 



