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the sub-committee has been mostly occupied in revising the 

 names already api)lied to plants in the first portion of the 

 census, from Dilleniacea to Myrtaceae. This section has now 

 been completed, and it is expected that at least a portion of it 

 will appear in the Journal of July next. Through his appoint- 

 ment to charge of the Agricultural School at VVarragul, the 

 services of Mr. J. P. M'Lennan have unfortunately been lost, 

 but the sub-committee has been strengthened by the addition 

 to its numbers of Messrs. Tovey and St. John, and is at last 

 sanguine enough to think that the end of the most important 

 part of its labours is within measurable distance.' 



" We note with pleasure the generally sympathetic attitude 

 of the Department of Agriculture in the matter of game pro- 

 tection and the protection of native animals and birds. A list 

 of additional sanctuaries, supplied by Major Semmens, the 

 Chief Inspector of Fisheries and Game, is as follows : — ' Lake 

 Linlithgow, Dandenong State Forest, Tragowel Swamp, 

 Doctor's Swamp, Lake Murdeduke, Hall's Gap, Reedy Lake 

 (Nagambie), Fyke's Creek Reservoir ; No. i Swamp, Upper 

 Stony Creek, and Korweinguboora Reservoir Sites (Geelong 

 Water Supply) ; and Jubilee Lake Reserves, Daylesford.' There 

 were also six private sanctuaries proclaimed from ist May, 

 1911, to 30th April, igi2.' 



" Though the Department and the Club are not in agree- 

 ment on the quail season question, which remains a bone of 

 contention, we arc glad to record these additions to protected 

 areas for native fauna generally. 



" Two members of our Club, Mr. G. A. Keartland and Mr. 

 A. H. E. Mattingley, have been unremitting in their efforts 

 to secure respectively better conditions for native game and 

 a cessation of the cruelty associated with the procuring of bird 

 plumes and skins for purposes of millinery, &c., and much 

 success has already been achieved. 



" A movement, initiated by your Club, and now, l)y our 

 invitation, led by the National Parks Association, has been 

 started for the better control of the tea-tree foreshores of Port 

 Phillip, and there is little doubt that during the coming year 

 something definite will be done in response to the representa- 

 tions of the several kindred societies acting together. 



" The Club's small subscription towards the expenses of the 

 Mawson Antarctic Expedition was a pledge of its interest in 

 that undertaking, and no society will look with greater interest 

 to a successful home-coming of the cx]ilorers. 



" To Messrs. Coghill and Haughton the committee is grateful 

 for the free use of Ihcir offices at 71) Swanston-sf rci-t for com- 

 mittee meetings. 



" The hon. librarian reports as follows : — ' The library has 

 been augmented by 233 volumes and separate parts during 



