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ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



On a ballot being taken. Rev. A. Mitchell, Orrong-road, 

 Elsternwick, was duly elected an ordinary member ; Mr. T. A. 

 Robinson, Armidale, via Sale, a country member ; and Miss 

 Jean Robertson, Hutcheson-street, Moonee Ponds, and Masters 

 I. R. S. Smith. 20 Isabella-street, Malvern, G. R. Weigall, 

 St. Kilda-street, Elsternwick, V. F. J. Woinarski, Victoria- 

 street, North Melbourne, D. Keep, Alma-road, Caulfield, F. S. 

 Vine, Redan-street, St. Kilda, D. Howard, 3Q Albert-road, 

 South Melbourne, J. L. Dean, Kerferd-road, Albert Park, 

 J. Cuming, Ingles-street, North Port Melbourne, D. Cuming, 

 Ingles-street, North Port Melbourne, C. Faul. Burnett-street, 

 St. Kilda, R. J. Percy, Oueen's-road, South ^Melbourne, F. 

 Holdsworth, 148 Glenferrie-road, Malvern, H. Klug, Equitable 

 Building, Collins-street, R. Grey-Smith, Marysville-street, St. 

 Kilda, C. W. Hale, Point Nepean-road, Elsternwick, as junior 

 members of the Club. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



Messrs. D. Best and J. Stickland were elected to audit the 

 accounts for IQII-12. 



Nominations for office-bearers for 1912-13 were duly made. 



PAPERS READ. 



1. By Mr. F. Chapman, A.L.S., entitled " On the Occurrence 

 of Some Sepias New or Little Known to the Victorian Coast." 



The author said that, besides the Common Cuttle-fish, Sepia 

 apama, M'Coy, three other species are represented by remains 

 found on Victorian beaches, especially at Toi-quay, between 

 Port Phillip Heads and Cape Otway. S. hrag^i. Verco, had 

 already been recorded, but S. latimanus, Ouoy and (iaim., 

 and S. capensis, D'Orb., he now recorded as new to the 

 State. 



Dr. T. S. Hall. M.A., congratulated the author on his ob- 

 servations, and hoped that the diagram exhibited would be 

 published in the Club's journal. 



Mr. F. Cj. A. Barnard remarked that at Easter-time the beach 

 near Wonthaggi was strewn with hundreds of cuttle-fish bones 

 of various sizes, but, not having collected any, he could not 

 say how many species were represented. 



2. By Mr. A. D. Hardy. F.L.S., F.R.M.S., entitled ' On the 

 Distribution of the Leaf (ilands of Some Victorian Acacias." 



The author said that, owing to certain of his experiments 

 as to the mori)hology of the leaf glands not having been com- 

 pleted, he would confine his remarks to their distribution on 

 the leaves and phyllodes of some of the commoner species of 

 acacias. He thought that in some instances too much im- 

 portance had been attached to the j)resencc or absence of the 



