34 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. 



" To the Members of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria. 

 Ladies and Gentlemen, — The twenty-first annual report of the 

 Club for the year ending 30th April, 1901, which your Committee 

 have now tlie honour of presenting to you, sees the Club, as it 

 should be in view of its age, in full vigour, and ever gaining in 

 workers and popularity. 



" During the year the membership has increased to 155, com- 

 prising 139 ordinary, 2 life, 10 honorary, and 4 country members. 

 The last have come in under the alteration to rule 4, whereby 

 persons residing beyond a radius of 15 miles from the G.P.O. 

 are deemed country members, and pay an annual subscription of 

 I OS., with the same privileges as ordinary members.- 



"The meetings have been well attended, and when papers have 

 been illustrated by limelight views the hall has been crowded. 

 The papers read have been more numerous and diversified than 

 usual. They comprise 22 on zoological, 9 on botanical, 5 on 

 geological, and 4 on general subjects and trips ; total, 40. The 

 authors were — Messrs. D. Best, C. C. Brittlebank, A. J. Campbell. 

 A. Campbell, C. French, jun., Fulton and Grant, J. H. Gatlifif, 

 T. S. Hall, M.A., R. Hall, T. S. Hart, M.A., G. A. Keartland, 

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

 F.L.S., Geo. Lyell, jun., D. M'Alpine, Dr. Macgillivray, J. H. 

 Maiden, F.L.S., A. J. North, C.M.Z.S., G. B. Priichard, F. M. 

 Reader, H. T. Tisdall, and O. A. Sayce. Besides these, five 

 papers on birds or nests and eggs new to science, by Mr. A. J. 

 North, C.M.Z.S., were printed in the Naturalist. 



"The extra number of items on the business papers for the 

 meetings have caused rather fewer natural history notes to be 

 read, but the exhibits have been good, and the interchange of 

 ideas over them shows out prominently how " live " our club is. 

 Cannot more members bring exhibits ? A little trouble taken in 

 this way is well repaid by the interest shown at our meetings and 

 by the pleasure afforded other members. 



" The seventeenth volume of the Victorian Naturalist has been 

 completed, under the editorship of Mr. F. G. A. Barnard, whose 

 never-tiring energy in working for the Club are deserving of all 

 praise, and who now receives our hearty thanks. The appearance 

 of the Naturalist has been much improved by the kindness of 

 Mr. E. H. Swan, of the Triumph Engraving Company, in 

 gratituously providing half-tone blocks when required, and we 

 take this opportunity of recording our thanks to him. 



" We hail with satisfaction the publication of Mr. A. J. Camp- 

 bell's work on ' The Nests and Eggs of Australian Birds,' and 

 consider it a matter of congratulation that a member of the Club 

 has done such good work, thus placing on record many results of 

 the Club's outings or his fellow-members' observations. 



'' A ' camp-out ' was held in November at the Maroondah Weir, 



