%260 THE GEELONG NATURALIST. 
To fill the vacant position Professor R. Tate, F.G.S., F.L.S., was 
unanimiously elected Patron; and the Club is to be congratulated 
on the choice of so accomplished a scientist for the post. 
The Annual Excursion of the Club took place on the 11th 
November, 1895, and the locality selected was Shelford. A very 
large number of members took part in this most enjoyable and 
instructive outing. A full report of the trip was published in the* 
Geelong Naturalist, Part 2, Vol. V. 
Your Committee are pleased to state that Botany has received 
a large share of attention from members. The revival of this 
previously much neglected subject is due to one of the Club's 
Vice-Presidents, Mr G. H. Adcock, F.L.S., who is always ready 
and willing to identify any botanical specimens which may be 
submitted to him, and to give the fullest information regarding 
plant life to members. It is gratifying to the Club to be able to 
state that two photographie illustrations by this gentleman, with 
accompanying letterpress descriptions, of the rare and stately 
Hakea grammatophylla (F. v. M.), were published last January in 
the “London Gardeners’ Chronicle: 
Dredging operations have been carried on with much vigour 
and a considerable amount of success. A definite plan of action 
has been determined on and systematic work commenced by a 
number of members under the leadership of the Club's secretary. 
A large amount of work of a practical character has been 
performed in Geology by Messrs J. Dennant, F.G.S., F.C.S., and 
J. F. Mulder. The Palzontological branch of this interesting 
science has also received due attention from the gentlemen 
referred to, and others. 
The Mollusca, marine and terrestrial—fossil and recent—have 
been the subjects of several papers and interesting discussions, 
while their collection has been the main object of a number of 
excursions to various localities. 
We are pleased to note that our members, and more especially 
some of the juniors, see the desirability and advantage of taking up 
some partieular'branch of Field Naturalists’ work, and making it 
an object of special study and investigation, as our President has so 
repeatedly and strongly advocated. It is gratifying alike to the 
President and the Club to know that, acting on this suggestion there 
are now earnest workers among Corals, Mollusca, Crustacea, &c., 
and that Geology, Entomology, Ornithology, Botany, and kindred 
subjects can each claim a number of earnest, patient and intelligent 
investigators, by whom new features and discoveries are being 
frequently brought to light. , 
Valuable information is being imparted among members by the 
exhaustive papers and interesting discussions at our meetings, and 
