1 bt-lieve he was happiest. It was difficult to persuade htm to write anything 

 aivl almost as difficult to get him to talk to an audience- He was no* happy 

 even in collaboration and I feel >ure we are the poorer in knowledge for 

 fix*, introspective attitude. 



Probably iJot many present members oi the F.N.C.V, know that Frank 

 Cud more did much in his quiet way to further die Club's interests, and 

 in$ny h clue to an imporunt item of Natural History knowledge came to me 

 as "Huiiwary Secretary from htm, For instance he told of experiences with 

 Wed^c-tailcd iiagks on sheep stations, that give us some goad points in a 

 "Slvnjt the Eagles Campaign" we ft* a Club were fighting. 



Ill lv.:;ilth c^nte upon him and The loss, of his wife marie a great d'dfercitce 

 to h'i social activities which, at the best. Were never very prominent, and 

 gradually he withdrew fioru lib earlier w^ociations and jo recent years, rme 

 Heard o; him only at odd time*. He was a irequcut visitor to my home and 

 he enjoyed the company of the naturalists who uathered thtre. He felt the 

 fireak-iip ot this association a great deal and t think here \vc saw the real 

 nun more closely — a kindly person, ir.teremcd in \atutal History beyoivJ 

 his fossils and able to take part in the conversation, adding his fjuota of 

 items of intcfeftt. 



Ta we h« passing means that one more of the old school ;iatur*h>ts faafl 

 Roue, and such do not seem to develop $o readily nowadays, Vale Frank 

 Cudnirro — a goad friend and a <*ood fossil hunter! 



Following arc it«ns written by F. A Cudniore t md published in the 



1924 Vol. 41, r.. 346 ('Report op the) Kxcersion lo Moru'mgton, 

 }926 Vol. 42, p, 232 A Complete Coral Jnm <w Yhtji\\nt,strnCii wr<t, Duncan. 

 I i lust, 



)92<i Vol. 43. p» 78 Extinct verfthrftien from feandwrf* 

 192& Vol. 45, p. J32 FosSi) Collection ( Rcpori r>i a visit to inspect the 

 Cudmore Collection at his Home.). 



— F. S. Gtj.mvfu 



NATURALISTS' NOTEBOOK 



tftci«rY«4 for youi Notes, Observations end Queries I 



GIPPSLANO SPRING 



Spring is here in this Gippsland mountain gully. Above the thicket of 

 y»ttos|V>rum and blanket- wood the sides oi the gully arc glowing with -|he 

 wattle shrubbery, and the gWfn3 reach Up beyond them, while pink heath *nd 

 tetratheca cluster round their feet. Tn thi* particular spot, t lately saw a 

 lyrebird fly down the igrullv at dusk. Us nest is fifty yards up the creek, hung 

 precariously on the side ot a huge sum tree. How that untidy mass of sticks 

 and dry moss hang5 there is a miracle. 



Last week 1 startled a wallaby on the hdKidc. u\^ there are often koalas to 

 i>c sevn, Some of the feutiu with thick bark have regular track* up them witerc 

 thc-*<r "monkey bears" climb, Rr Wills too have then- home herei while wombats 

 live a truly glorious existence, if the number of holes k any indication oi their 

 ciHoymctu. As chc car went up the. track a few ttigjus ago, one hnnbered 

 acruss in us pathway. 



About here there are buds gatoic — fantads, wrens, parrots, wattle birds, 

 magjiies golden whiu'ers. and mountain thrushes, to list but a few. There is 

 one friendly thrush who comes for lunch scrap? each day. Further down the 

 yully there is the home of a coachwl-np bird with a few ye1|r«w robins' nesls. 

 Almost straight above, high in a eery tall gum. there is *n eagle's nest— ail 

 unruly bundle of sticks forming a rude platform. Some of the slicks ar<r as 

 thick as a man's arm, and as long. 



He/met orchids, greenhoods /three types'), mosquito orchids, are flow-exiiuj 



