Che Uictorian naturalisr. 



Vol. XXXVII.— No. 3. JULY 8, 1920. No. 439. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



The fortieth annual meeting was called at the Royal Society's 

 Hall for Monday evening, 14th June, 1920. 



Owing to the strike of gas-works employes, &c., neither gas 

 nor electric light was available, candles being substituted, 

 while the consequent curtailment of the tramway services 

 affected the attendance, which numbered about twenty 

 members. 



The president, Mr. A. D. Hardy, F.L.S., occupied the chair, 

 and said that after dealing mth any correspondence and the 

 election of new members the business of the annual meeting 

 would be postponed vmtil the ne.xt monthly meeting. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



A letter was read from Colonel J. M. Semmens, Chief 

 Inspector of the Fisheries and Game Department, asking for 

 the appointment of two members to meet two members of the 

 Australasian Ornithologists' Union and confer with him 

 regarding the question of granting permits for the collection of 

 eggs of protected birds for scientific purposes. 



After some discussion as to the position to be taken up, 

 seeing that the Club had at its last meeting decided against 

 the proposal, Messrs. J. A. Kershaw, F.E.S., and G. A. Keart- 

 land were appointed to represent the Club. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



On a ballot being taken, Mrs. George, care of Mrs. Irvine, 

 () Park-street, Ivanhoc, and Mr. Clyde D. Gillies, M.Sc, ()i 

 \\'e]lington-street, Windsor, were duly elected as ordinary 

 members of the Club. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



EXCURSION TO ROSEBUD. 

 The Easter excursion was this year fi.xcd for Rosebud, a fishing 

 village on the south-eastern shore of Port Phillip Ba\-. anil 

 about three miles distant from that well-known watering-place, 

 Dromana. On (iood I'riday morning (2nd April) eleven 

 members and friends proceeded by the s.s. Hygcia to Dromana, 

 and thence by drag to their destination. Rosebud is becoming 

 a popular tourist resort during the summer season. Accom- 

 modation had been arranged for at " Parkmore," within two 

 liundred yards of a clean sandy Ix-ach, where there were ample 



