DUNEDIN FIELD CLUB.

Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 89

DUNEDIN FIELD CLUB.

An indoor meeting of the Dunedin Field Club was held in the Museum on Monday evening, 12th. inst., and was well attended. The object was to enable the members to exhibit, compare, and discuss the materials and specimens collected during the past fewmonths. Professor B-enhani (president) gave an interesting address on the aims of the club, and on the methods of collecting and preserving specimens, urging on niembers the desirability of following certain definite lines of research., such as the Hie histories of "the insects commonly met with, the modes of fertilisation of wild .flowers, and other subjects, which only wanted observation and recording to yield results o£— permanent scientific value. Mr G. M. Thomson exhibited a collection .of slime fungi (Mycetozoa) made here by Miss Hibbert-Ware, which had been named and sent out by Mr luster, the 'English authority on this group ; and also urged on members the specialisation of their work.

An adjournment was then made to the library, where numerous exhibits were examined and discussed. Those included a collection of fossils (leaves, fish remains, and seaweeds) from th© shale deposit at Fraser's Gully, 'by the president; fossil leaves, stems, etc.. from limestone, by Mr MacLeod; beechwood fungus, by Mr Robertson; and a collection of mollusea, chiefly Tasmanian, by Mr Adess. The 'Secretary announced a programme of excursions which, had been arranged for the rgst of the season, and the meeting broke up after a long and interesting evening. The excursion fixed for last Saturday to Flagstaff Hill, and which was prevented by the rain, will be held on the 17th inst., members meeting at the corner of Duko and Geoi-ge streets at 2.30 p.m. The club has resolved to present a prize to tjhe Girls' High School for the best collection of dried plants made by membei-s of the botany clasa