July, 1908.] TfiE VICTORIAN NAttTRALIST. 45 



Brought forward... ... ... _^ii5 i6 o 



By Wild Flower Exhibition — Expenses ... 053 

 ,, Printing and Stationery ... ... ii 12 o 



,, Postages, &c. ... ... ... 16 16 li 



,, Purchase of Badges .. ... ... 220 



,, Subscription to Werribee Gorge Improve- 

 ment Fund ... .. ... 220 



/14S 14 2 



114 o 7 



,, Balance Melbourne Savings Bank ... IC2 17 3 

 ,, „ London Bank ... ... ii 3 4 



;^262 14 9 



G. COGHILL, //o/t. Treasurer. 

 261k May, 1908. 



Audited and found correct. 



J. SHEPHARD,! .^^ 

 29//^ Mz/, 1908. D. BEST, '^^naaofs. 



The following statement of assets and liabilities was also 

 read : — 



Assets. 



Balance in Banks ... ... ... ... £\\\ o 7 



Arrears of Subscriptions (;^6o), say ... ... 30 o o 



,, for Reprints ... ... ... ... 2120 



Library and Furniture (Insurance Value) ... ... 130 o o 



^276 12 7 



Liabilities. 

 Subscriptions paid in advance ... ... ... £(i 6 o 



The financial statement was received, on the motion of Messrs. 

 A. H. E. Mattingley and J. Stickland, and, after discussion, was 

 adopted, on the motion of Messrs. F. Pitcher and C. F. Cole. 



president's address. 



The president, Mr. G. A. Keartland, then delivered the follow- 

 ing address : — 



"Twenty-one Years' Membership of the Field Naturalists' 

 Club of Victoria, and My Obligations to It. 



" It is now twelve months since the members of this Club did 

 me the honour of electing me to the office of president ; and, as 

 my term has expired, I have been reminded that I am expected 

 to give a president's address. Whilst some of my predecessors 

 have spoken on the work of the past year, and to a certain 

 extent reiterated the annual report, others selected a subject 

 with which they were familiar, and confined their remarks to it. 

 Now, I will leave the report of the year's work to speak for 

 itself, and devote a brief period to reviewing my twenty-one 



