THE GEELONG NATURALIST. 2S9 
GEELONG FIELD NATURALISTS CLUB. 
Report for Year ending 30th June, 1896. 
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. —[In presenting the Annual Report for 
the year ending 30th June, 1896, your Committee congratulate 
you upon the large measure of success which has been attained in 
Field Naturalists’ work. 
During the year, 25 meetings have been held. The attendance 
at these meetings has been good, and shows that members take a 
deep interest in the proceedings of the club. Seventeen papers of 
high merit have been read before the various meetings. These 
papers may be grouped under the following heads, viz:—Zoology, 
ll; Botany, 3; Geology, 1. Hight lectures have been delivered 
under the auspices of the club, and the following subjects were 
dealt with:—Zoology, 3; Botany, 8; Geology, 2. To these 
lectures the general publie have always had a cordial invitation 
extended to them, and your Committee are pleased to state that 
these invitations have been largely taken advantage of, and that, 
consequently, the efforts of your Club to promote interest in the 
various departments of Natural History are fully appreciated. 
Your Committee feel that they cannot allow this opportunity 
to pass without publicly thanking the following gentlemen, who 
have, by their valuable lectures, added so much to the success of 
the Club’s work during the year. We refer to Messrs J. Dennant, 
F.G.S., F.C.S.; H. T. Tisdall, F.L.S.; W. Shaw; G. H. Adcock, 
F.L.S., F.R.H.S.; J. Stirling, F.G.S., &c., and J. F. Mulder. 
The Club's Journal—Zhe Geelong Naturalist—has been 
published during the year under the able editorship of Mr 
H. E. Williams, assisted by Mr G. H. Adcock, F.L.S.; and your 
Committee heartily.congratulate you upon the success of this, your 
fifth volume. Itis not too much to say that for a Field Naturalists’ 
Journal it compares very favourably with any publication of similar 
character; and reflects credit. alike upon editors and publisher— 
the former for the excellent reading matter, and the latter for the 
arrangement and careful printing of the same. It is a matter for 
great regret that removal from this district has deprived the Club 
of the valued services of Mr H. E. Williams. 
During the past year we have suffered a severe loss by the 
death of Mr J. B. Wilson, M.A., F.L.S., who held the position of 
Patron of the Club. Mr Wilson's scientific attainments had earned 
him a world wide reputation, and we shall greatly miss his ready 
help in, and kind and practical sympathy with, all branches of 
our work. 
