I04 Field N aturalists Club — Proceedings. [voi.'xxxvii. 



A report of the excursion to Emerald on Saturday, 20th 

 November, was given (in the absence of the leader, Mr. W. 

 Scott) by Mr. F. Pitcher, who said that a small party visited 

 Emerald on that date, where they were met by Mr. Scott, who 

 resides in the neighbourhood, and invited to his home for 

 a cup of tea before entering on the walk along the tourist 

 track. The Monbulk road was traversed for a httle distance, 

 and then the tourist track was entered on and followed to 

 Paradise, where the evening train was taken for town. Though 

 nothing of particular importance was met with, the members 

 thoroughly enjoyed the fern scenery along Menzies Creek, 

 parts of which are exceedingly lin(^ and well worthy of 

 a visit. 



A report of the excursion to Beaumaris on Saturday, nth 

 December, was (in the absence of the leader, Mr. J. Shephard) 

 given by Mr. W. Glance, who said that a number of members 

 had taken part in the excursion, and, though the tide was 

 favourable, few specimens of importance were obtained. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



On a ballot being taken, Miss A. and Miss L. Cruickshank, 

 " Currajong," Auburn-road, Hawthorn ; Miss Margaret A. 

 Salter, Avondale-road, Armadale ; Miss Florence Smith. " Cora 

 Lynn," 29 Addison-street, Moonee Ponds ; Mr. D. J. Chandler, 

 Tooronga-road, Malvern ; Mr. Arthur J. (iraham, 104 Nicholson- 

 street, Abbotsford ; and Mr. Arthur (t. Hooke, jj John-street, 

 Hawthorn, were duly elected as ordinary members ; Mr. Chas. 

 D'Alton, Hall's Gap, Grampians, and Rev. W. C. Tippett, 

 Maldon, as country memb(;rs ; and Mr. Herl)ert J. V. Moore, 

 259 Auburn-road, Hawthorn, and Mr. Cedric K. Ralph, Finch- 

 street north. East Malvern, as associate meinlKrs of the Clul>. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. 



The president stated tliat the committee had decided on 4th 

 October, 1921, as the date of the next exhibition of wild- 

 flowers ; but, on inquiry at the Town Hall, it was found that 

 the hall was already engaged for the first two weeks of Octobt'r, 

 and that it could not he engaged, for a single day, more than 

 three months in advance. However, he hoped that it would 

 be possible to secure it for Tuesday, ^jtli Scptt'iiihci. 



PAPER. 



By Mr. F. Chapman, A.L.S., entitled •" A Sketcii of the 

 Geological History of Australian Plants - Part III.: The 

 Cainozoic Flora." 



The author gave an interesting account, illustrated by a line 

 series of lantern shdes, of the occurrence of evidence of a 



