• 2 or 3km along to the park entrance gate 
• bush-walk 2km 
• lunch at Cape Surville 
• retrace route 
• possible side-trip to look at Cyathea cunninghamii 
• 4.30pm deadline back at park gate. 
16-17 Oct 
Federation weekend on King Island. More details soon. Check website for an update. 
From 22 Oct 
Pelagic bird observing boat-trip(s) to Pedra Branca. 
Club member Bill Wakefield will be guiding these commercial trips. 
Thurs 4 Nov 
Meeting 7.15pm in Life Sciences building, University of Tasmania. 
Our guest speaker will be Karen Gowlett-Holmes, a renowned marine biologist, 
underwater photographer and author. She will expound The marine life of the Bathurst 
Channel—a truly unique environment. 
Sat 6 or Sun 
7 Nov 
Excursion to Sentinels Range via Strathgordon Rd in Tasmania's South-west. 
The day will be decided at the previous meeting, based on the weather forecast. Check 
website for update. 
Sat 27 Nov 
Pelagic bird observing boat-trip from Eaglehawk Neck. Privately organised by Bill 
Wakefield. See website program for booking details. 
Welcome to the Marine Naturalists! 
Michael Driessen 
L ate last year the Tasmanian Marine Naturalist 
Association contacted the TFNC committee to 
advise that they were planning to dissolve 
their association and, in line with their 
constitution, to offer to transfer their assets and 
membership to the TFNC. 
The committee has accepted this offer and 
provided a year's membership to the remaining 
marine naturalists. 
Visit to the Herbarium 3 July 2010 
Kevin Bonham 
hirteen Field Nats attended the tour of the 
Herbarium, hosted by Lyn and Eleanor Cave. 
The Herbarium is part of the Tasmanian Museum 
and Art Gallery but is situated in a grass-covered 
building built into a hillside on the University 
campus. It is located there for historical reasons, 
dating from the career of Winifred Curtis, and 
includes over 250,000 plant and fungus 
specimens. The vascular plants are all data-based 
but it will be many years before this is true for the 
non-vascular. 
Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club 
Folders for easy identification are being prepared 
and we were shown several of these for the 
orchids. The collection also includes a reference 
collection of weeds that may be encountered in 
the state, and specimens are continually 
exchanged with other herbaria around the world. 
We started out in the preparation room where 
Lyn showed us how specimens are prepared. A 
small proportion is preserved in fluid, but most 
are dried. They are pressed using weights and 
glued on to paper using Aquadhere; some older 
specimens were sewn. 
BULLETIN 340 October 2010 p2 
On behalf of the TFNC I welcome our new 
members to the club and look forward to your 
involvement in club activities particularly our 
marine-focused excursions—already a popular 
activity of the TFNC. 
The marine naturalists have recently revised and 
reprinted their book Between Tasmanian Tides 
and this book will ultimately be distributed and 
sold along with existing TFNC books. 
