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Vol. XXV.— No. 1. MAY 7, 1908. No. 293. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



The ordinary monthly meeting of the Club was held in the 

 Royal Society's Hall on Monday evening, 13th April, 1908. 



The president, Mr. G. A. Keartland, occupied the chair, and 

 about 75 members and visitors were present. 



REPORTS. 



Dr. J. C. Kaufmann gave a report on the Club's excursion to 

 Heidelberg on Saturday, 14th March, the object being pond 

 life. Some interesting material was found, and examples taken 

 for closer examination under the microscope. 



A report of the geology excursion to Fairfield on Saturday, 

 28th March, was given by Dr. T. S. Hall. About 12 members 

 attended, who devoted the afternoon to the examination of the 

 geological features of the locality. 



Mr. R. W. Armitage, who, in the unavoidable absence of Mr. 

 E. O. Thiele, kindly acted as leader of the juniors' excursion to 

 Beaumaris on Saturday, 4th April, reported that about twenty- 

 five junior members attended. The object of the excursion was 

 fossils, and, notwithstanding a somewhat high tide, a fair collec- 

 tion of the fossils usually met with in the locality was made. 



A report of the excursion to Keilor on Saturday, nth April, 

 was given by the leader. Dr. T. S. Hall, who stated that there 

 had been a large attendance of members, who were greatly 

 interested in the varied geological features of the district, which 

 have already been described in the pages of the Naturalist (vol. 

 X., p. 21, and vol xiv., p. 52), in connection with former excur- 

 sions. 



The hon. librarian reported the receipt of the following 

 donations to the library : — " The Ascent of Water in Trees," by 

 A.J. Ewart, D.Sc, Ph.D., F.L.S. (reprint from "Philosophical 

 Transactions of Royal Society, London "), from the author ; 

 " Report of Department of Agriculture, Victoria," 1905-1907 ; 

 Journal of Agriculture of Victoria^ February and March, 1908, 

 from the Secretary for Agriculture, Melbourne ; " Annual Report 

 of Trustees Australian Museum, Sydney," June, 1907, from the 

 Trustees ; Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, February 

 and March, 1908, from the Secretary for Agriculture, Sydney ; 

 " Proceedings Linnean Society of New South Wales," vol. xxxii., 

 part 4, from the Society ; " Transactions Royal Society of South 

 Australia," vol. xxxi., from the Society ; *' The Development of 

 Nestling Feathers," Laboratory Bulletin No. 13, from the Oberlin 

 College, U.S.A. j Wilson Bulletin, Nos. 60 and 61, September 



