THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 39 



the chair of natural science at Adelaide, and whose good work in 

 Australian palaeontology, conchology, and botany was appre- 

 ciated throughout the scientific world. 



" The attendances at the monthly meetings have been most 

 satisfactory, a feature which is especially encouraging to authors 

 of papers, who thus feel that their work is appreciated by their 

 fellow-members. The papers read have in many instances 

 excited considerable discussion, which has lent additional interest 

 to our meetings, while several have been well illustrated by 

 lantern views. 



"Of the papers read i8 were on zoological subjects, 2 

 botanical, 2 geological, 2 general, and 3 were accounts of trips, 

 totalling altogether 27. Of the zoological papers 8 were devoted 

 to birds, 8 to insects, i to fish, and i to molluscs. 



" The authors were Messrs. F. L. Billinghurst, F. P. Dodd, W. 

 V. Fitzgerald, J. F. Haase, T. S. Hall, M.A., R. Hall, G. A. 

 Keartland, J. A. Kershaw, F.E.S., D. Le Souef, C.M.Z.S., S. A. 

 Le Souef and H. Bullen, J. Lidgett, J. H. Maiden, F.L.S., A. W. 

 Milligan, G. B. Pritchard, O. A. Sayce, H. T. Tisdall, and C. 

 Wallis. 



"In addition to these, Messrs. R. Hall, A. J. North, C.M.Z.S., 

 and D. Le Souef, C.M.Z.S., contributed articles of a technical 

 nature, which were printed without being read. 



" Natural history notes have been read at nearly every meeting, 

 while the exhibition of specimens still continues to prove one of 

 the most valuable features of our meetings. Still more, however, 

 might with advantage be done in this direction, the keen interest 

 shown by members being sufficiently encouraging for a further ex- 

 tension of this part of our monthly programme. 



"Another volume, the i8th, of the Victorian Naturalist has 

 been completed under the able editorship of Mr. F. G. A. 

 Barnard, to whom we are again indebted for his conscientious 

 work and the unfailing regularity with which our journal is issued. 

 To Mr. E. H. Swan, of the Triumph Engraving Company, our 

 thanks are again due for gratuitously providing process blocks 

 when required for illustrating our journal. 



" The holding of camping-out excursions has proved a valuable 

 addition to our annual excursion list, and is now thoroughly estab- 

 lished as a most important part of our field work. Two of these 

 ' camps ' have been held during the year — one in November, at 

 Gembrook, in which some of our lady members took part, and 

 the other in March, at Shoreham, on Western Port Bay. Both 

 were well attended, and the results obtained most satisfactory. 

 These prolonged excursions are specially valuable in that they 

 afford the opportunity of working the selected areas much more 

 thoroughly than can be done by short visits, besides stimulating 

 individual interest through working in the company of others of 



