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April 30, as noted ii% the balance sfteet The book reflects credit as 

 a solid achievement for the Club and it* Editor, Mr. N. A. 

 Wakefield, 



Credit and thanks are due LO those who ledured to the Oub 

 during the [last year The F*rcbM]eiil\ address, on Dimorphism in 

 llalictine Bees, was particularly memorable, as a load account, well 

 delivered, ot a highly technical 5.uh|ecc. Innovation of 10-minufcc 

 lecrurettes at the General Meetings proved u popular move.. How- 

 ever, they did iw.u always continue along the lines originally 

 Intended, which was to relate actual experiences or research rather 

 than infoTiuatiun at secondhand. An attempt was also made during 

 the year to augment the exhibits for the General Meetings 



The. chief meeting of the Club was held on April 9, 1956, in 

 conjunction with rhe Anthropological Sueicly of Victoria and the 

 Fraukston Field Naturalists Club, for the presentation of the Aus- 

 tralian Natural History Medallion to one of our member.*, Mr. 

 Stanley R Mitchell, h was an historic occasion, for it was the 

 first rime that the Medallion had been presented by another medal- 

 lionist, the Club President, Mr Tarlton Rayment. A coincidence 

 was that the dossiers for both these recipients- had been prepared 

 by Miss 1 .ynetie Voting of this Club. 



During the year, the Club lent its support loa number of worthy 

 projects The International Boy Scout Jamboree at Wonga Park 

 was furnished assistance by Club members who lectured and 

 exhibited. A. proposed Olympic Games Wilriflower Display by the 

 Banfe of New South Wales is receiving Cluh support, both artiarie 

 and technical. The Club has been asked (and currently has a 

 sub-committee working) to assist in staging a small-scale Nuture 

 Trail within the Sir Colin Mackenzie Sanctuary, in time fur the 

 Olympic Games. The Cluh has continued its never-ending battle 

 toward reasonable conservation by protesting against wholesale- 

 destruction proposed tor kangaroos in Western Australia, and a 

 proposed open .season tor possums in Victoria. We were represented 

 loo ar the Australian Primary Producers' Union Conference nn 

 conservation problems and in a deputation to the Premier of Vic- 

 toria on proposed National Parks legislation. 



Field Naturalists Clubs were formed in two other areas of 

 Victoria during the year. We were happy to welcome the Winuuera 

 and the Colac Clubs into the ranks of those dedicated to the study 

 of Natural History and to the protection of nuiive fauna and flora, 

 There are now eight National .History bodies affiliated with the 

 Senior Club. 



Work among the Study Groups progressed. The Botany Group 

 waa sorely bit by the untimely death in July of its chairman, Mr. K. 

 Dakin. The Group is now engaged in an ambitious project, an 

 Ken logical Census of Sherbrooke Forest, under the guidance oi 

 its Secretary, Mr. K. Atkins. The Microscopical Group b.a»- had W 



