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with that promise he had been instructed to write to the 

 Acting Chief Inspector of Fisheries and Game and enter an 

 emphatic protest against the abrogation of the sanctuary or 

 the curtailment of its area. The chairman said the meeting 

 would be pleased to learn that the highly satisfactory memo- 

 randum from Mr. F. Lewis, the Acting Chief Inspector of 

 Fisheries and Game, was principally due to the prompt action 

 of the president and hon. secretary. 



REPORT. 



A report of the excursion to Beaumaris on Saturday, 18th 

 December, was given by the leader, Mr. J. Shephard, who said 

 that a combined party of members of the Club and of the 

 Microscopical Society, numbering about twenty, visited 

 Beaumaris by motor char-a-banc for the purpose of studying 

 marine life. Unfortunately, the weather proved very un- 

 pleasant, and on reaching the beach it was found that the 

 strong south-west wind had lashed up the sea, and prevented 

 the tide receding, as it should have done according to the 

 almanac However, a somewhat sheltered bay was found, and 

 duly searched, but only those crustaceans commonly met with 

 were noted : calcareous sponges, which are usually plentiful in 

 the locality, were entirely absent. A number of echinoderms 

 and other fossils were noted in the cliff-face. 



1 I ECTION OF MEMBER. 



On a ballot being taken. Mr. Edwin Cox, Grace Park, 

 Hawthorn, was duly elected an ordinary member oi the Club. 



GENERA! BUSINESS. 



Mr. 1'. R. II. St. John -aid members would he pleased to 

 learn thai he had again been appointed as ;i member of the 

 Victorian Planl Research Committee by the British Association 

 foi t he Advani emeni oi S< iem e. 



REMARKS BY EXHIBIT 



Mr. J. Searle called attention to his exhibit of specimens oi 

 the raie freshwatei crustacean Koonunga cursor, Sayce, from 

 North Portland. This crustacean was named by the late Mr. 

 0. A. Sayce in 1007 from specimens found near Ringwood. 

 Somi foui years late 1 he had found a single specimen ai Nyora ; 

 now Mr. Ralph Millar reports Large numbers oi them in ;i dam 

 at North Portland, near his school. This species is the only 

 representative oi the Anaspidacea in Australia, .mil the only 

 member oi the group living at sea-level. The other two 

 members oi the group, each (1 | which represents a separate 



ire found ai high elevai ion- in 1 asmania. Mi . Saj 1 

 paper will l>- found in the Victorian Naturalist for November, 

 1907 (vol. xxiv.. |>. 117). 



Mr. I'. K. II. St. John, in referring to his exhibit oi sample- 



