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Saturday, 2nd May. The various trees were brought under 

 leview, and an instructive afternoon was spent. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



On a ballot being taken, Mr. John R. Mann, Mines Depart- 

 ment, Melbourne, and Mr. Walter Webb, 430 Little Collins- 

 street, Melbourne, were duly elected ordinary members, and 

 Mr. David John Paton, " Glenlee," 80 Anderson-street, Bendigo, 

 as a country member of the Club. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



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

 accounts for 1913-14. Nominations for office-bearers for 

 1914-15 were duly made. 



Mr. J. R. Tovey gave notice of his intention to propose, at 

 the annual meeting in June, the following alteration to 

 rule 4, clause d : — " That the words ' and over the age of 

 sixteen years' be deleted." 



Mr. Rosenhain said he wished to draw the attention of the 

 Club to the fact that the South Melbourne City Council were 

 about to plant trees along St. Kilda-road, and moved that the 

 committee write and endeavour to get some native trees and 

 shrubs planted. This was seconded by Mr. Keartland. Messrs. 

 Wisewould and J. Gabriel supportecl the motion, which was 

 carried unanimously. 



Mr. St. John drew attention to the presence of Mr. R. T. 

 Baker, F.L.S., Curator of the Technological Museum, Sydney. 

 The president cordially welcomed Mr. Baker to the meeting. 



In responding, Mr. Baker said it gave him great pleasure to 

 be among the members of the Club, and he was very thankful 

 for their kindly welcome, and mentioned that he looked forward 

 every month with interest to the receipt of the Club's journal, 

 the Viclorian Naturalist. 



PAPER READ. 



By Dr. T. S. Hall. M.A., D.Sc. entitled " Notes on the 

 Gippsland Lakes." 



The author, in the course of an interesting pajier. illustrated 

 by lantern slides, traced the extent of the Gippsland Lakes, 

 which were formerly estuaries of rivers, but had become lakes 

 by the action of sand-dunes, which still continue to form along 

 their seaward margins. The jiosition of portion of the old 

 coast-line was still marked by cliffs of marine Tertiaries in 

 several jilaces. He said that it seemed probable that the 

 altered conditions which now exist could be traced to the 

 breaking-down of the land-bridge wliich once existed between 

 Australia and Tasmania and the piobal^le change in the ocean 

 currents which followed the formation of Bass Strait. 



The chairman said the thanks of the Club were due to the 

 author for his very interesting and instructive paper. 



