146 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



On a ballot being taken, Mrs. Day, Toorak-road, South Yarra, 

 Miss Young, Tivoli-road, South Yarra, Mr. Kerr Grant, M.Sc, 

 Ormond College, Parkville, Mr. H. Grundt, Collins-street, Mel- 

 bourne, Mr. J. T. Hamilton, Heidelberg-road, Ivanhoe, Mr. 

 J. H. Harvey, 128 Powlett-street, East Melbourne, and Mr. 

 J. S. Morrison, Eglinton-street, Moonee Ponds, were duly elected 

 as members ; Mr. Wm. Wallace, Grantville, as a country member ; 

 Mr. J. E. Marshall as an associate ; and Masters J- Erey, 

 G. Taylor, J. Maxwell, A. Day, J. Minifie, C. Nixon, H. Rabling, 

 R. Elder, A. Gaye, C. Young, G. M. Hall, H. Deniston, 

 A. Adams, H. Adams, and R. Green as junior members of the 

 Club. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



Mr. A. J. Campbell wrote suggesting that the Club approach 

 the Minister of Public Works with a view to having a track cut 

 from the Matlock track to Mt. Baw Baw, a distance of five miles, 

 which he considered would enable tourists to reach the principal 

 peak of the mount from Melbourne in a day's journey, going by 

 way of South Neerim instead of the Moe and the old Tanjil 

 track. 



Mr. A. E. Kitson, E.G.S., said that Mr. Catani, Engineer of the 

 Public Works Department, was desirous of having a track cut 

 between the Tanjil-Matlock track and Mt. Baw Baw, but that 

 before taking any steps to have this done he would await the 

 result of the geological survey of the district now being carried 

 out by Mr. Wm. Baragwanath jun., of the Department of Mines, 

 so as to utilize the information furnished by that survey ; and in 

 view of this statement no action was taken on Mr. Campbell's 

 letter. 



The hon. secretary read a letter — received from Mr. J. T. Paul, 

 of Grantville— relative to the alleged destruction of Black Swans 

 in Western Port Bay, in which he stated that the statements 

 made in the press did not apply to that part of the bay extending 

 from Lang Lang to Corinella, where the birds could be seen in 

 hundreds throughout the year. 



PAPERS READ. 



I. By Mr. T. S. Hall, M.A., entitled " The Rules of Zoological 

 Nomenclature." 



The author pointed out the need of rules and the necessity there 

 was for those who attempted to write with scientific exactness to 

 obey these rules. Some points in the new code issued by the 

 International Zoological Congress were drawn attention to, and 

 it was urged that we should fall in with other countries in 

 adopting them. A name is regarded as a mere label, and as 

 such it has no meaning, just as people's surnames have no 



