40 Field Natmalists' Club — Proceedings. [voTxxxi 



wealth Government at the National Herbarium, Melbourne. 

 Mr. Charles Maplestone died in January, 1914. He was a well- 

 known worker in polyzoa and bryozoa, and the results of his 

 researches will endure in the ' Records of the Australian 

 Museum,' the ' Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria,' 

 and the Victorian Naturalist. 



" The attendance at the ordinary meetings has been main- 

 tained, and averaged about 50. 



" During the year 18 papers were read, 10 of which were 

 devoted to botany, 7 to zoology, and one to palaeontology. 

 Most of these have been published in the Victorian Naturalist. 

 The authors were: — Messrs. J. W. Audas, F.L.S., R. T. 

 Baker, F.L.S., R. A. Bastow, F. Chapman, A.L.S., G. B. 

 Doyle, J. Gabriel. J. H. Gatliff and C. J. Gabriel, J. C. 

 Goudie, A. D. Hardy, F.L.S. (two), T. S. Hart, M.A., R. Kelly 

 (two), J. A. Kershaw, F.E.S., J. G. O'Donoghue, O. Sargent, 

 J. Searle, and H. B. Wilhamson. 



" Two illustrated lecturettes were also given — the first by 

 Mr. F. Chapman, A.L.S., at the September meeting, entitled 

 ' Victorian Fossiliferous Limestones and their Correlatives in 

 Other Lands,' and the second, at the December meeting, by 

 Professor A. J. Ewart, D.Sc, entitled ' The Senses of Plants.' 



" Illustrated reports of excursions were given by Mr. J. 

 Gabriel and Dr. E. B. Nicholls, Mr. F. Chapman, A.L.S., and 

 Mr. F. G. A. Barnard. 



•' Your committee considers that there is room for expansion 

 in the way of natural history notes and in the variety and 

 quantity of exhibits at the ordinary monthly meetings, these 

 being of great interest to members, more especially to those 

 to whom the special and often technical papers do not appeal. 



" The annual exhibition of wild-flowers was held at the 

 October meeting in connection with the Victorian Forest 

 League's exhibit of timbers, &c., as a section of the Austrahan 

 Manufactures Exhiljition, but it was found that neither the 

 attendance at the ordinary meeting nor the flower show 

 patronage was of a nature to justify a repetition of this ex- 

 periment. 



"At the last annual meeting Dr. J. A. Leach, D.Sc, was 

 elected president of the Club. However, in August he found 

 that his official duties would prevent him giving that time to 

 the affairs of the Club which he considered necessary. He 

 therefore forwarded his resignation of the ottice, trusting to be 

 able at some future time to resume liis position as an oflice- 

 bearer. Mr. J. A. Kershaw, F.JC.S., one of the vice-j)residents, 

 was then elected ])r('sident, .Mr. F. Pitcher tilling the vacant 

 vice-prcsidentshi}), and .Mr. P. R. H. St. John succeeding Mr. 

 Pitcher as a member of the committee 



