88 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
tion, his experience going to support Mr. C. Hedley’s theory 
of the direction of the streams of plant-life in the Pacific. 
After his lecture Mr. Watts passed round a large number of 
mounted specimens from New South Wales, New Zealand, the 
Pacific, Europe, etc. ° 
In response to the request of the President, he also gave 
a few hints as to the best way of collecting and preserving 
specimens of mosses, and offered to name any specimens col- 
lected by members. ; : 
THE EASTER CAMP. 
[Budget of News Compiled by CG. Thackeray. | 
A pusr trail out and a slough of despond back—those were 
_two of the outstanding features of the Easter Camp at Wam- 
‘peral, eight miles east of Gosford, in which members of the 
New South Wales Naturalists’ Club, the Aquarium Society 
_of'Néw South Wales and the Floral Society of New South 
Wales, to the number of 58, participated this year. It was 
a big camp, and the eternal ‘‘tucker’’ problem on Good Fri- 
day was something to be remembered. However, owing to 
the heroic exertions of Mrs. H. E. Finckh, Mrs. D. G. Stead, 
Miss Beaumont, and a host of other willing ladies, the prob- 
lem ceased to present difficulties and obtruded itself no more. 
Everybody fed like fighting cocks, and got through without 
any perceptible loss of avoirdupois. 
The camp was certainly rather an unwieldy proposition, 
‘put it brought out the latent camp-craft of many of the men, 
who showed their faculty for overcoming difficulties and who 
fixed up their tents and bunks with an eye to possible changes 
in the weather. _ At first the party was favoured with ideal 
weather, a little bit on the chilly side at night; but during 
two days and nights Undine wept beside the fountain, and 
some of the campers had to go into the houses secured for 
the accommodation of the ladies, where they found the. flooring 
of the dining and. sitting rooms at least dry—if hard. Some 
of the sufferers from the hard floor are still feeling sore and 
sorry that they did not rig up their bunks—but they have 
learned their lesson, and, being young, may profit in future. 
_ There were two well-known journalists in the party, so 
everybody was on his or her best behaviour—even those who 
agreed to the suggestion that a fitting rhyme for dust was 
cuss’ d. 
The leaders in various sections of natural history study 
were Messrs. W. B. Gurney (President Naturalists’ Club), E. 
