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THE 



Victorian Jlaturitli^t. 



\^0L. XVI.— No. 8. DECEMBER 7, 1899. No. 192. 



FIELD NATURALISTS' CLUB OF VICTORIA. 



The ordinary monthly meeting of the Club was held in the 

 Royal Society's Hall on Monday evening, the 13th November, 

 1899. The president, Mr. J. Shephard, occupied the chair, and 

 about 35 members and friends were present. 



REPORTS. 



A report in diary form of the " camp-out " in the Lerderderg 

 Ranges, 4th to 9th November, was read bv Mr. A. Mattingley, 

 and Mr. A. J. Campbell gave some notes on the birds, &c., seen. 

 A special vote of thanks was accorded Mr. Mattingley for his 

 energy as manager of the " camp-out," and for the use of the 

 camping material, &c., placed at the disposal of the party. 



The hon. secretary reported that the annual picnic had been 

 held at Blackburn on Saturday, the 28th October, and had been 

 attended by nearly 60 members and friends, who all seemed to 

 enjoy thoroughly the ramble in the afternoon and music, &c., in 

 the evening. 



The hon. librarian reported the receipt of the following dona- 

 tions to the library : — " Monthly Progress Report, Geological 

 Survey of Victoria," new series. No. i, from Department of Mines, 

 Victoria ; " Proceedings Royal Society of Victoria," vol. xii., 

 part I, from the Society; "Annual Report, 1898, Department of 

 Mines, New South Wales," " Mineral Resources of New South 

 Wales," No. 5, and " Records of Geological Survey of New 

 South Wales," vol. vi., part 3, from the Department of Mines, 

 New South Wales ; " Annual Report Botanic Gardens, New 

 South Wales, 1898," from the Government Botanist ; " Proceed- 

 ings Royal Society of New South Wales," vol. xxxii., 1898, from 

 the Society; " Proceedings Linnean Society of New South Wales," 

 vol. xxiv., part 2, from the Society; "Transactions Royal Society of 

 South Australia," vol. xxiii., part i, and " Memoirs Royal Society 

 of South Australia," vol., i., part i, from the Society ; " Queens- 

 land Agricultural Journal," vol. v., July, August, October, 1899, 

 from the Department of Agriculture ; " The Student's Flora of 

 New Zealand," by T. Kirk, from the New Zealand Government ; 

 "Proceedings Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 1898," part 3, 

 from the Institute ; " Field Columbian Museum, Anthropological 

 Series, vol. ii.. No. 3, from the Museum ; " Transactions Wis- 

 consin Academy," vol. xi., 1896-7, from the Academy ; " Wis- 

 consin Geological and Natural History Survey — Solitary Wasps," 

 from the Survey Department ; " Bulletin Geological Institute of 



