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Vol. XXXII. —No. 2. JUNE 10, 1915. No. 378. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



The ordinary monthly meeting of the Club was held at the 

 Royal Society's Hall on Monday, ioth May, 1915. 



The president, Mr. J. A. Kershaw, F.E.S., occupied the chair, 

 and about 35 visitors and members were present. 



REPORTS. 



A report of the excursion from Upwey to Narre Warren on 

 Monday, 26th April, was made by Mr. F. G. A. Barnard, who 

 intimated that a party of twenty-two members and friends 

 had taken part in the outing. The Rocking Stone, near North 

 Narre Warren, which was figured and described in the January 

 Naturalist, was visited, and most of the party tested the ease 

 with which a more or less vertical motion could be imparted to 

 the poised mass of granite, which is computed to weigh about 

 8 tons. Narre Warren was reached about 5 o'clock, and the 

 5.30 train taken to the city. 



A report of the Sydenham-Bulla excursion, on Saturday, 

 8th May, was made by the leader, Mr. A. L. Scott, who stated 

 that twenty-five members and friends proceeded to Sydenham 

 by motor. The whole of the party inspected the basaltic 

 columns, and whilst the majority returned to the car and went 

 round in it to an appointed rendezvous at Bulla, eight, in- 

 cluding a lady, ascended to the basalt plain above the columns, 

 and. inspecting several natural features on the way, walked 

 across to Bulla, where the motor party was met, and all joined 

 in afternoon tea. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



On a ballot being taken, Miss W. F. Eggleston, " Brown- 

 more," Balaclava- road, East St. Kilda, and Mr. C. A. Nethercote, 

 Callantina-road, Hawthorn, were duly elected as ordinary 

 members of the Club. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



Messrs. J. Stickland and J. Wilcox were elected to audit the 

 accounts of the Club for the year 1914-15, and nominations for 

 office-bearers for the year 1915-16 were made. 



REMARKS ON EXHIBITS. 



In a note referring to his exhibit of a fruiting specimen of 

 the Slender Mistletoe, Loranthus linopliyllus, Fenzl., collected 

 in the cemetery. North Creswick, Mr. T. S. Hart, M.A., stated 

 that eight out of fifteen blackwood trees were noticed to be 



