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Street ; and Mr. S. J. A. Fripp, 120 Wattletree-road, Malvern, 

 were elected ordinary members ; Miss Elsie Stewart, Masters F. 

 Seelenmeyer and S. Johnston were elected junior members of the 

 Club. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



The president took the opportunity of introducing to the meet- 

 ing Professor J. A. Ewart, D.Sc, the recently appointed Professor 

 of Botany in the Melbourne University, and expressed the hope 

 that he would prove a zealous guardian of the valuable collections 

 contained in the National Herbarium. 



Professor Ewart thanked the members for the kind reception 

 given him, and trusted that he would be able to fulfil all that was 

 expected of him. He was in the difficult position of being 

 among strange faces, and surrounded by a strange flora, but he 

 felt that he could confidently look to the members of the Field 

 Naturalists' Club for their assistance and hearty co-operation in 

 matters relating to the local flora, and he would be very glad to 

 assist the Club in the furtherance of the knowledge of Australian 

 botany. 



PAPERS READ. 



1. By Mr. F. Chapman, A.L.S., entitled " On an Abnormal 

 Leaf of Gangamopteris spatulata, M'Coy." 



The author drew attention to an impression of a leaf found at 

 Bacchus Marsh by the Rev. A. W. Cresswell, M.A., some years 

 ago, which in many respects resembled a leaf of Glossopteris, 

 though this genus, usually found associated with Gangamopteris, 

 has not been found in the Bacchus Marsh beds. A careful 

 consideration of the specimen showed, however, that it must be 

 regarded as an abnormal leaf of Gangamopteris spatulata, 

 M'Coy. The paper was illustrated by lantern slides, 



2. By Mr. E. O. Thiele, entitled " Notes on the Upper Mac- 

 allister Valley, North Gippsland." 



The author gave an interesting account of an exploration of 

 the Upper Macallister Valley made in January last, and by means 

 of a fine series of lantern slides graphically described the diffi- 

 culties of the trip, which was through some of the roughest and 

 wildest country in Victoria, many miles from any habitation, and 

 for the most part at an elevation of about three thousand feet 

 above sea level. 



Mr. A. E. Kitson, F.G.S., congratulated the author on the 

 good work he had done in the district, and supported his view 

 that the valleys of the Barkly, Macallister, and other streams in 

 the district probably occupied fault lines. 



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