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Vol. XVIIL— No. 9. JANUARY 9, 1902. No. 217. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



The ordinary monthly meeting of the Ckib was held in the 

 Royal Society's Hall on Monday evening, 9th December, 1901. 

 Tile president, Mr. T. S. Hall, M.A., occupied the chair, and 

 about 50 members and visitors were present. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



From the Australasian Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, inviting the Club to appoint delegates to the general 

 council for the meeting of the Association to be held at 

 Hobart in January next. On the motion of Mr. D. Le Souef, 

 C.M.Z.S., and Mr. F. Wisewould, Messrs. J. Shephard and H. T. 

 Tisdall were appointed to represent the Club. 



REPORTS. 



A report of the Club excursion to Springvale and Mentone on 

 Saturday, 23rd November, was given by Mr. J. A. Kershaw, 

 F.E.S., who stated that, though a good number of specimens both 

 of entomology and botany were collected, nothing rare was seen. 

 Among the Lepidoptera — Termessa nivosa, Dichromodes atro- 

 sigmda, Scoparia philonephes, Hypertropha tortriciformis (larvte, 

 pupge, and imago), Cliry^oryctes irrupteila, &c., were taken, while 

 in Botany specimens (in flower) of Casuarina suberosa, Utricularia 

 dichotoma, Drosera peliata, and G7iaphalium japoiiicum were 

 collected. 



A short report of the excursion to Fishermen's Bend on 

 Saturday, 7th December, was given by Mr. F. E. Grant. A 

 number of the commoner species of shells, including Mijodora 

 brevis and Corbula scaphoides, were collected, and an interesting 

 crustacean, Hymenosoma australe, Haswell, was found in the 

 shallow water, which has not so far been recorded from else- 

 where. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



On a ballot being taken Mr. A. Card, Church of England 

 Grammar School, St. Kilda-road ; Miss Bainbridge, Elphin-grove, 

 Hawthorn, and Miss Wills, Barker's-road, Hawthorn, were duly 

 elected as ordinary members ; and Dr. Edgeworth Somers, 

 Mornington, as a country member of the Club. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



The matter of the adoption of a badge by the Club was again 

 brought forward, and a recommendation from the committee that 

 a shell (the species to be determined later on) be used, was dis- 



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