Dec, 



1919 



1 Field Naturalists' Cluh — Proceedings. m 



retirement of Professor Sir Baldwin Spencer, K.C.M.G., from 

 the Chair of Biology at the University, which he had held for 

 a period of thirty-three years. A committee of his co-workers, 

 friends, and students, past and present, had been formed with 

 the view of perpetuating the memory of his work in some way. 

 Professor Spencer, he said, had always been a good friend of 

 the Club, had been its president in 1891-3, and again in 1895-7. 

 He had also filled the offices of vice-president and committeeman. 

 To him was largely due the success of the effort to secure 

 Wilson's Promontory as a National Park. He urged members 

 to favourably consider the matter of subscribing to the fund. 

 The chairman spoke in eulogistic terms of Professor Spencer's 

 many spheres of work. Mr. F. Pitcher thought that it would 

 not be out of place for the Club to become a subscriber to the 

 fund, and moved that one guinea be donated. Mr. D. Best 

 considered that the idea of the Club's appreciation of Professor 

 Spencer's work could not be adequately expressed by such a 

 sum, and moved as an amendment that five ■ guineas be 

 donated. This was seconded by Mr. G. Coghill. Mr. E. E. 

 Pescott, in seconding Mr. Pitcher's motion, remarked that the 

 goodwill of the Club was not to be expressed in measure of 

 money, and that the state of the finances had to be borne in 

 mind. On being put to the meeting the motion was carried. 

 Mr. Kershaw undertook to receive any subscriptions members 

 might be willing to give towards the fund. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



On a ballot being taken, Mr. Harvey Cheeseman, 244 North- 

 road, Brighton ; Mr. Colin Allen, 374 Auburn-road, Hawthorn ; 

 and Mr. John Harper, Metropolitan Gas Co., Flinders-street, 

 Melbourne, were duly elected ordinary members ; and Mr. 

 Henry E. James, Henty-street, Casterton, as a country member 

 of the Club. 



PAPER READ. 



,. By Mr. C. Daley, B.A., F.L.S., entitled "At Wartook 

 (Grampians)." 



During a recent visit to Hall's Gap, at the Grampians, the 

 author, accompanied by three other members of the Club and 

 some visitors at " Bellfield," varied the usual excursions made 

 by engaging on the longer trip to the Wartook Reservoir, 

 distant about twelve miles. The route lay along the Mount 

 Difficult Range, above the course of the Stony Creek, and was 

 at times very steep and rugged. On reaching the crest of the 

 range the Mackenzie watershed was entered, which, being on 

 the western slope, was much easier to travel. All the way 

 flowers of numerous species were abundant, and large collections 

 were made for the purposes of the recent exhibition of the Club. 

 The Wartook Reservoir was found to be most picturesquely 

 situated, and some three miles below the reservoir are the 



