DRB November 2018 Meeting Report This was the first of the DRB’s special talks honouring the DRB elders. Kevn Griffiths, the DRB Co-founder, has presented talks over many years, but this was his debut using digital technology at the wonderful age of (almost) 90. Kevn documented the founding of the ...
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Contains reports from meetings and excursions
Main Club September 2018 Meeting Dr Kenny Travouillon, Curator of Mammalogy at the WA Museum, originally worked on Riversleigh marsupial fossils for his PhD. When he first started as the Mammalian Curator at the museum he went through a box of specimens of the Western Barred Bandicoot (Perameles bougainville) and ...
Read more →Main Club October 2018 Meeting Long-term Club member Kevin Coate spoke to us about his visits to Christmas Island dating back to 1990. The island lies 2600km north-west of Perth and is formed by an extinct volcano which rises more than 4000m from the ocean floor, reaching a height of ...
Read more →DR Branch October 2018 Meeting Laura Skates, a botanist and final year PhD candidate at UWA, captivated her audience at the DRB in October 2018. She started her talk by exploring popular cultures and the wonder or horror of carnivorous plants. From the Venus fly trap, known all over the ...
Read more →NS Branch September 2018 Meeting Pearls have fascinated people for thousands of years, no more so than at our September meeting when members and visitors were still glued to the words of our guest speaker, Michael Seifert-Weiss after one and a half hours. Michael’s presentation covered a wide range of ...
Read more →KRM Branch September Meeting The format for our September meeting was a Members’ night, which saw three presenters show photos. First up was Bob Goodale, who showed a series of his recent photos. The first were taken at Goodale Sanctuary and showed some of the orchids that have been in ...
Read more →a KRM Branch Excursion: September 2018 The September outing was to the Perth Zoo on a beautiful spring day. There were only four attendees due to many members being away on trips. The zoo was quite busy which was good to see, with the added attraction of the dinosaur exhibits proving ...
Read more →NS Branch September 2018 Despite Trigg Bushland Reserve being one of the best known natural areas in the northern suburbs, only a handful of our 19 GOLLY walkers had previously visited the section north of Karrinyup Road. While the section on the south side of the road is dominated by ...
Read more →DRB September 2018 Excursion Overall more than 100 flowers were identified in two hours, when 26 members and visitors went on a flora walk, beginning from the new subdivision ‘Conti Gardens’ in Walliston, which is west of the Alan Anderson car park (currently closed for renovation.) It was a great ...
Read more →KRM Branch August Excursion The August 26 field trip was to the Don Shepherd Nature Reserve, a small reserve located on the corner of Baldivis Road and Karnup Road, Karnup in the City of Rockingham. The reserve is a mixed woodland, consisting of Banksia, Tuart, Jarrah and Casuarinas with an ...
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