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Professor J. B. Cleland gave an instructive talk on fungi 
during an outing to Long Gully on June 25. 
The Chairman again led the excursion to Brown Hill Creek: 
on June 9, when the study of cucalypts was made by iTjcmbers* 
.^nnl friends. 
Cuttlefish and Shells was the subject of Mr, B. C, Colton’s 
chat to members during a walk along the beach between Sea- 
diff and Glenelg on June 23. Kingston Park, Marino, wa? also 
on the programme with ,Mr. Hogan as leader. 
Lectures and evening meetings were features of the year's 
programme, and the evening of March 15 was very cnjoyably 
spent at the Maple Leaf Cafe, the evening taking the form of 
a “Conversazione/’ when various members gave talks and ex- 
hibited specimens. Tlie main speaker was Air. Charle> 
of the Victorian Field Naturalists. 
Natural History Notes was the subject of Professor J. B. 
Cldand’s address on May 17. 
On June 21, Prof. Sir D. Mawson entertained the members 
with delightful slides and graphic descriptions of the glaciers, 
fiords and high mountains of New Zealand, The LP.,A. were 
our guests on this occasion. 
“Whales and Whaling in the Antarctic” was Prof. Harvey 
Johnson’s illustrated lecture on July 19 when the I.P.A. and the 
Angling Society were also present. 
USE OF ROYAL SOCIETY ROOMS. 
The Koyal S(jciet\ decided ai the end ol last year I' ai all 
organisations using the Royal Society’s rooms were to pay a 
rental. The Section, under these new regulations, must pay a 
yearly rental of 30/- which entitles it to 10 meetings yer year and 
3/- per meeting is charged for all extra meetings. Owing to 
ihi.s regulaiion. the Committee decided that for the il 
would pay' out of general funds for only five meetings pet year 
for each of its branches using the Rooms, the branch itself to 
pay to the Section the cost of any additional meetings over ^ 
per year that it may hold. Owing to this decision, the Micro- 
sc('pic J>ranch found it necessary to go into recess as it con- 
sidered that 5 meetings per year would be insufficiem for its 
ptjrpo«^s. 
