Cbe Utctorian naturalist 



Vol. XXXVII.— No. 8. DECEMBER 9, 1920. No. 444. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



The ordinary monthly meeting of tlie Club was held at the 

 Royal Society's Hall on Monday, 8th November, 1920. 



The president, Mr. J. Gabriel, occupied the chair, and about 

 sixty members and visitors were present. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



From Major V. T. Conder, O.C, Langwarrin Camp, acknow- 

 ledging the thanks of the Club, and stating that he would be 

 dehghted to see members of the Club at the camp at any time. 



REPORTS. 



A brief report of the excursion to Cheltenham on Saturday, 

 i6th October, was given by the leader, Dr. C. S. Sutton, who 

 said that the party had not proceeded so far as Heatherton, 

 and had met with only the usual spring flowers of the coastal 

 district. 



The leader, Mr. H. B. Williamson, said that the excursion 

 to Dandenong, fixed for Saturday, 23rd October, had to be 

 abandoned, owing to the exceptionally heavy rain, which con- 

 tinued nearly all the day. 



A report of the excursion to Lerderderg, via Bacchus Marsh, 

 on Saturday, 30th October, was, in the .absence of the leader 

 (Mr. C. C. Brittlebank), given by Mr. C. French, jun., who said 

 that the excursion had been well attended and an enjoyable 

 day spent in the gorge of the Lerderderg River. A number 

 of interesting plants and insects had been met with. Nine 

 species of micro-fungi had been collected, one of which, Puccinia 

 carduipycnoccphali, found on the Shore Thistle, Carduiis 

 Pycnocephaliis, being the first record for Austraha. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



On a ballot being taken. Miss Mary Marquard, Trained Nurses' 

 Club, 452 Lonsdale-street, Melbourne ; Mr. T. (ireen, 35 Merton- 

 street, Albert Park ; Dr. P. H. Justescn, 42 Morrah-street, 

 Parkville ; and Mr. S. R. Mitchell, " Lurnea," Sunnyside- 

 avenue, Camberwell, w(Te duly elected as ordinary members, 

 and Mrs. A. W. Bridgland, " Elfin Grove," Olinda, as a country 

 jnember of the Club, 



GENER.\L HTSINESS. 



The president referred to the death of Rev. \V. W. Watts, 

 F.L.S., a comparatively new member of the Club, and who 

 was an authority on ferns and mosses. On the motion of 



