tbe Uictorian Daturalisi 



Vol. XXVII. —No. 2. JUNE 9, 1910. No. 318. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



The postponed monthly meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Royal Society's Hall on Monday evening, i6th May, 1910. 



The president, Prof. A. J. Ewart, D.Sc, occupied the chair, 

 and about 80 members and visitors were present. 



The President referred in feeling terms to the death of His 

 Majesty King Edward, and said that the postponement of the 

 monthly meeting from the previous week must be regarded as 

 some tribute to his memory. He would have advocated allowing 

 the meeting to lapse altogether but for the fact that it was 

 required to make nominations of office-bearers for election at the 

 annual meeting in June. 



REPORTS. 



A report of the excursion to Moorooduc on Saturday, 23rd 

 April, was forwarded by the leader, Prof. E. W. Skeats, D.Sc, 

 and was read by Mr. R. W. Armitage. The report stated that 

 there had been a good attendance of members, and an instructive 

 day had been spent. An outcrop of Ordovician rocks near 

 Moorooduc station, yielding graptolites, was first visited ; then the 

 granodiorite of Mt. Eliza was examined. The leaf-beds on the 

 coast south of Grice's Creek were pointed out, and a return was 

 made to the fossiliferous limestone and the basaltic outcrops at 

 Grice's Creek, which were examined and discussed. Several in- 

 teresting species of fossils were met with during the day. 



Mr. Barnard remarked that he had noted plants of the fern, 

 Woodwardia aspera, at Grice's Creek. From his experience he 

 considered this fern rather rare, and it was interesting to note that 

 its habitat was on the basaltic outcrop. 



A report of the junior excursion to the Botanic Gardens on 

 Saturday, 7th May, was given by the leader, Mr. F. Pitcher, who 

 reported an attendance of about forty juniors, who seemed 

 greatly interested in the various features pointed out to them. 

 He was pleased to notice that the majority of those present were 

 wearing the badges. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



On a ballot being taken, the following persons were duly 

 elected members of the Club: — Miss *H. Deasey, Brighton-road, 

 Elsternwick, Miss J. J. Henderson, St. George's-road, Elstern- 

 wick, and Dr. Harvey Sutton, Education Department, Mel- 

 bourne, as ordinary members ; Mrs. H. H. Farmer, Vermont, 

 and Mr. C. M'Lennan National Park, Wilson's Promontory, as 

 country members; Mr. Henry E. Horner, 19 Tintern-avenue, 

 Toorak, and Mr. Wm. G. Spencer, 42 Ferguson-street, Williams- 



