Nuiung fro* ffaft, ,ri P s ' aro svnitobfc 



I- ihJ viaoiUm HWi\raJU{ at Fcbru- 

 , r> 1922 (Vol. 3S. pp. 105-1 IS> and 

 'Augusl l 1 ' 24 (Vol 41. pp. 5ft-«D). 



la Liter years there were a number 

 0 I family excursions to the Otway 

 Ranges, and interest in I hat area 

 culminated m a Field Nairn 'jfTm 

 flub excursion to the region IK 

 [Xverlvr YVSfr, As leader ol (he 

 ..xcursion. (iamsey Hooke published 

 ; , report of the activities in the l'u - 

 loritm NdlUraHsi Of March L$68 i Vol 

 76, pp. 277-SI), and his description 

 of the euealypts which were met with 

 appeared a month later I WW, Nut. 



76: 3t9>; 



Interest m euealypts. and in terns 

 too, had developed early, during 

 holidav VbAtS to die Dandenong 

 Raiigev I here is a report ot an 

 | \ < \ excursion to Sberhrooke, in 

 Ihe Vte&Atifi Nuiumlisi of May 1**24 

 (Vol. 41, pp. 4-ii). when he led 

 members Ihrough one of the local 

 fern gullies and then "to die country 

 house of one of his relatives, a Miss 

 Billing, who had kindly prepared a 

 ur> acceptable lunch for the party", 



On cr ihe years. Garmcy Hooke 

 spent much of his leisure time at 

 ' Merrimu", as the house at Shcr- 

 brooke was called, aiid eventually, in 

 I l >5f), it passed into his ownership. 

 Many members of die Field Natura- 

 lists Club became familiar with 

 "Mcminn", for its owner liked 

 nothing helter lhan lo have Incnds 

 along to spend a day or so (here 

 with bfirt. 



From F>61 onward, he served as 

 a member of the Committee of 

 Management of the Sir Colin Mac- 

 kenzie Siincluary, Healcsville. He 

 passed awav on 12 April 1970, and 

 in a short obituary, which appeared 

 in the I icturuin \alnruli\t soon 

 after, a fellow member of Ihe sanc- 

 tuary committee paid this apt tri- 

 bute: 



"Above all he was characterized 

 by gcnllemanlmess. He was tnnalely 

 courteous, disciplined, scrupulous, 

 never pretentious — a gentleman in 

 Irue manner He will be missed, and 

 he will he remembered" 



— N A, W^iri.in, 



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