30 THE VICTORIAN NATURALIST. [Vol. XXVI. 



expenditure jQ2o'] 12s. id. The credit balance, ^^109 17s. 3d., 

 is slightly less than at the commencement of the year, but as ;^35 

 has been spent on binding, and an additional bookcase, the 

 result cannot be considered otherwise than satisfactory. 



" Towards the end of the year your committee received the 

 resignation of Mr. W. H. A. Roger as hon. assistant secretary and 

 librarian, which was accepted with regret. During the three 

 years Mr. Roger had held the office he had devoted a large 

 amount of time to the duties, and your committee desire, on 

 behalf of the Club, to tender thanks to him for the work done 

 — work which was not very evident to the ordinary member. 



" Finally, your committee would once more urge on members 

 the desirability of inducing as many persons as possible interested 

 in Natural History to join our ranks and so strengthen the Club, and 

 by so doing help one another in elucidating the mysteries of nature. 



" On behalf of the committee, 



" G. A. Keartland, President. 



" F. G. A. Barnard, Hon. Secretary. 

 "Melbourne, 3is« May, 1909." 



The report was adopted on the motion of Messrs. J. H. Harvey 

 and J. H. Gatliff, who congratulated the committee on the work 

 accomplished during the year. 



FINANCIAL STATEMENT. 



The hon. treasurer, Mr. G. Coghill, read the financial state- 

 ment for 1908-9, which was as follows : — 



Receipts. 

 To Balance, 30th April, 1908 ... ... ... ^^114 o 7 



,, Subscriptions- 



•Subscriptions :— Arrears, ;^28 i6s. 6d. ; 1908-9, ;^I2I 17s. 6d. ; 1909-10, 

 ;^5 153.— total ;^is6 9s- 



