After the AGM, Anne Brearley gave us an interesting talk about Norfolk Island, which she visited in 2011. The tall pines planted at Cottesloe are our connection with this small Pacific island. The first Norfolk Island Pines in Cottesloe were probably the ones planted in John Street in 1917 by ...
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The 2012 programme has now been added to the website. Take a look at some of the exciting events we've got planned for 2012. And, if you're not a member, you are very welcome to come along to any of our events to see what we get up to. If ...
Read more →The 2012 programme of events for the Main Club has now been published. Some dates and speakers have yet to be finalised. See what's on in 2012 …
Read more →DEC Volunteer of the Year 2011 was awarded to the specimen mounting team at the WA Herbarium. This team included 3 Western Australian Naturalists; Kate Creed, Patricia Gurry and Ruby Johnson. For part of the year the team had to work at Kings Park during the Herbarium shift their work ...
Read more →In 2010 former WA Naturalist Club councillor Cate Tauss found a new species of Ptilotus (Mulla Mulla). The new plant species has been unearthed in suburban Kenwick of all places. Western Australian Environment Minister Bill Marmion said the discovery was the most significant botanical find in the Perth metropolitan area ...
Read more →June Butcher, founder of the Kanyana Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre and our member and guest speaker for the general meeting, gave us an insight into the aims and functioning of the rehab centre now located in the now very well rehabilitated wildlife centre at 120 Gilchrist Rd, Lesmurdie. The main thrust ...
Read more →The November General Meeting of the Naturalists’ Club has endorsed the Council decision to increase the membership fees to the following: $90 for family membership $70 for single membership $40 for junior membership Our last increase was in 2005. This increase in fees matches the increase in the Reserve Bank ...
Read more →Dr Kayley Usher, from the CSIRO, was our guest speaker for the October meeting and presented a talk entitled ‘How marvellous microbes made our world’. We were introduced into the world of the microscopic and sub-microscopic through a series of images and were presented with some interesting aspects of microbial ...
Read more →Some 20 intrepid DRB members and visitors travelled to Twink Smurthwaite’s ‘Topsy’ garden in Boya on Sunday September 18th – ‘intrepid’ because the day promised to be truly equinoxal. About half of those people continued to inspect rehabilitation work by the Helena River Catchment Group (HRCG) along the Scott Street/Pumpback ...
Read more →Eric McCrum, past President and active member of the Darling Range Branch, presented a talk on grasshoppers entitled ‘The bizarre world of grasshoppers’. Eric’s talk was well illustrated from his extensive collection of slides, a selection of which showed the wide morphology and colourful varieties of grasshoppers from WA. Eric ...
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