42 Field Naturalists' Club — Proceedings. [^'"^Uii^^'' 



Committee was read at the October meeting. This important 

 work, undertaken by the Club, is progressing, but has naturally to 

 be done with great deliberation, so that the progress is not very 

 apparent to those outside the committee. Five meetings were 

 held during the year, and a large number of names have been 

 provisionally agreed upon. 



" Along with other public bodies, the Club was asked to give 

 an expression of opinion on the question of daylight saving, and 

 your president and hon. secretary attended the Parliamentary 

 Committee, and gave evidence in support of the idea. 



" The Conservator of Forests was recently approached with 

 reference to the reservation of certain land along the Monbulk 

 Creek as a sanctuary for birds, animals, and plants. While not 

 agreeing to specially reserve the area, the Conservator promised 

 that no timber-cutting would take place in the area, and he also 

 expressed himself willing to consider the Club's wishes with 

 regard to other areas if brought under his notice. 



" The question of the purchase of the land at Mt. William, 

 near Lancefield, occupied by the aboriginal stone axe workings, 

 was initiated by your committee during the year, and is at present 

 under consideration by a joint conference of the Club, the 

 Historical Society, and the National Parks Association, and we 

 trust will be brought to a successful issue, so that almost the only 

 spot in the State where direct evidence of the former owners of 

 the soil can be seen will be preserved as a public reserve for ever. 



" Your committee was pleased to note a movement at Ivanhoe 

 for the purchase of a block of land on which is growing a fine 

 Red Gum tree, for the purpose of preserving the tree, and, as a 

 mark of the Club's interest in such matters, forwarded a donation 

 of one guinea to the movement. We are pleased to learn that 

 there is every probability of the required sum of money being raised. 



"The hon. librarian reports that during the year some 20 

 volumes have been purchased, in addition to the usual periodicals. 

 The exchanges have been very numerous, and most of them have 

 been acknowledged from time to time in the Naturalist ; among 

 them may be mentioned several back volumes of the " Proceed- 

 ings of the Royal Society of Tasmania," kindly supplied by the 

 society in order to complete the Club set as far as was possible. 

 Owing to lack of assistance, the card catalogue was much delayed, 

 but has now been completed as far as authors' names of 

 single volumes and the periodicals. A number of serials have 

 been bound, and several others are now in the binder's hands. 

 The library rules have been revised, and will be printed on 

 cards for use as book-marks and as a reminder to those members 

 who retain the books an unreasonable time. It is hoped that 

 the publication of a catalogue in pamphlet form will be undertaken 

 during the coming year. 



" The financial position of the Club continues to be satisfac- 



