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improved as the day advanced, the coastal 
scenery was seen to the best advantage. 
When Three Beach Bay was reached, tae 
day was drawing on, and it was decided to 
return to camp across country. The party 
took advantage of a dip in the hills 
which forms a gully, having a most 
euphonious local designation, and struck 
a bee-line back to camp, which was reach¬ 
ed in time for tea. During the day other 
parties had been busy making excursions 
to other places in the district, or else 
fishing in the hay. 
One excursion concerning which men¬ 
tion should be made was that made oy 
the members of the biological section, who 
made a two-day r s’ trip to Port Arthur, in 
or tier to study the shore life of the dis- 
ir cl, 't he party was accompanied by 
Mr. Hod ley, who was anxious to obtain 
as many specimens of Tasmanian fish as 
possible, in order to take them back to 
Sydney with him. He was collecting these 
in order that Mr. Alan McCulloch, of the 
Australian Museum, might have some fur¬ 
ther material for his work on the fishes of 
Tasmania. It is understood that fins 
work, when published, will be a most 
comprehensive one, and will include il¬ 
lustrations of all the known Tasmanian 
species. Mr. Medley had a successful time 
at Port Arthur, as he was able to secure 
several interesting specimens, while the 
other members of the party spent their 
time studying the shore life of the dis¬ 
trict. 
During the evenings in camp the usual 
camp file socials were held, and ns the 
camp was fortunate in possessing con¬ 
siderable musical talent, the average 
items contributed were of no little merit. 
They were all the more appreciated per¬ 
haps owing to the romantic nature of the 
concert hall. In the centre blazed a 
huge pile of logs, which cast a cheerful 
glow upon the surrounding ring of per¬ 
formers and members of the audience, as 
well as adding warmth and comfort to 
the proceedings. Every now and again a 
log would tail in and send a shower of 
sparks aloft. These would draw one’s 
attention to the tall majestic forms of 
the eucalypts, which formed the back¬ 
ground of the arena, as they stood out 
silhouetted aga.nst the light of the Easter 
moon. To many lovers of the bush, the 
memory of such evenings, spent in music 
and song, amid such surroundings, will 
doubtless long remain. As usual, several 
camp songs were especially composed for 
the occasion, and these proved very 
popular items of the programme. 
Tuesday morning found the campers re¬ 
luctantly pocking up their goods, and 
soon after breakfast th,c camp impedi¬ 
menta was ready for die bullock waggons 
to take to the beach. The working bee 
soon had the tents down and folded up, 
and with many regiers we departed from 
tile >pot that had bten our happy abode 
for the only too few days of the Easter 
holidays. 
The whole party assembled on the 
beach, at the mouth of Crinp's Greek for 
lunch, after which a start was made for 
Mr. W’ade’s beach, where the camp gear 
was got ready to place on board the 
steamer, which arrived soon after 3 p.m. 
During the journey to town the party 
assembled on the upper deck and passed 
ilie time pleasantly by sing.ng the various 
songs that had become popular during the 
camp, and generally discussing the 
numerous incidents that ere inseparable 
from a camping trip. Hobart was readi¬ 
ed, after a very p! ‘a-ant trip, at about 
7.30 o’clock, and members were soon 
ashore, telling their friends of the events 
that occurred during the currency of the 
thirteenth Easter camp of the Tasmanian 
Field Naturalists Club. 
BOTANICAL NOTES 
By L. Rodway, C.M.G. 
Owing to the indifferent weather the 
botanist- of the expedition did not make 
an organised attack upon the plants in 
the vicinity of Wedge Bay, and only ex¬ 
plored the immediate locality and gul¬ 
lies. The vegetation was classifiable in 
three formations, open forest, fresh¬ 
water swamps, and sand-dunes. The trees 
of the open forest were blue gum. white 
gum, broad-leaved peppermint, and 
stringy-bark. Under these was a fairly 
open growth of shrubs, with dense asso¬ 
ciation of yellow bottle brush in the wetter 
parts. No plant of unusual interest was 
observed, but the flowering period of 
many seemed early, just as it appeared 
last year at Eagleliwwk Neck. Sweet- 
scented acacia and some orchids, which, 
as a rule, flower in July, were in full 
•bloom. Of the orchids, Acianthus exser- 
tus, Pterostylis praecox, and P. concinna 
were thus early. Chiloglottis diphylla 
