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25-426: The Latrobe Valley FNC was created in 1960 to encourage the enjoyment of nature and to help preserve the region's flora, fauna and natural habitat. Its motto is "to protect and enjoy". The club supports a wide range of conservation and environmental projects throughout the region, including monitoring threatened species and conducting plant and animal surveys in areas of high conservation value. The current emblem of

50-508: A deity , a tribe or nation , or a virtue or vice . An emblem may be worn or otherwise used as an identifying badge or patch . For example, in America, police officers' badges refer to their personal metal emblem whereas their woven emblems on uniforms identify members of a particular unit. A real or metal cockle shell, the emblem of James the Great , sewn onto the hat or clothes, identified

75-470: A Flora and Fauna Reserve, which had much less conservation protection as a national park. Club members, including Lyndon, came together to protect the park's conservation status, eventually assisting in the purchase of nearby land to ensure the land size was sustainable as a national park. In 1986 the Friends of Morwell National Park, including many members of the club, was established. The long-term conservation of

100-672: A medieval pilgrim to his shrine at Santiago de Compostela . In the Middle Ages, many saints were given emblems, which served to identify them in paintings and other images: St. Catherine of Alexandria had a wheel, or a sword, St. Anthony the Abbot , a pig and a small bell. These are also called attributes , especially when shown carried by or close to the saint in art . Monarchs and other grand persons increasingly adopted personal devices or emblems that were distinct from their family heraldry . The most famous include Louis XIV of France 's sun,

125-409: A non-verbal way, it should not be confused with emblems. Sign language contains linguistic properties, similar to those used in verbal languages, and is used to communicate entire conversations. Linguistic properties are verbs, nouns, pronouns, adverbs, adjectives, etc.. In contrast with sign language, emblems are a non-linguistic form of communication. Emblems are single gestures which are meant to get

150-429: A religious image), that has become standardized by convention. A logo is an impersonal, secular icon, usually of a corporate entity . Since the 15th century, the terms of emblem ( emblema ; from Greek : ἔμβλημα , meaning "embossed ornament") and emblematura belong to the termini technici of architecture . They mean an iconic painted, drawn, or sculptural representation of a concept affixed to houses and belong—like

175-516: A short non-verbal message to another individual. Emblems are associated with the culture they are established in and are subjective to that culture. For example, the sign made by forming a circle with the thumb and forefinger is used in America to communicate "OK" in a non-verbal way, in Japan to mean "money", and in some southern European countries to mean something sexual. Furthermore, the thumbs up sign in America means "good job ", but in some parts of

200-581: Is a member of the South East Australian Naturalists Association and has previously hosted several of the association's biannual naturalist club camps. The Latrobe Valley FNC works closely with other field naturalist clubs in the region, hosting camps, excursions and guest lectures for the Castlemaine Field Naturalists Club , Field Naturalists' Club of Ballarat and Peninsula Field Naturalists' Club . The club

225-773: Is also a member of the Australian Naturalists' Network. The Latrobe Valley FNC has continued to contribute to the Australian Natural History Medallion Trust Fund. The Latrobe Valley FNC was formed in February 1960 at a public meeting in Morwell sponsored by the Morwell and District Horticultural Society. The concept of a regional field naturalist club in the Latrobe Valley was proposed by members of

250-812: The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (FNCV) who has visited the 1959 Morwell Horticultural Show. FNCV members assisted in the club formation and have continued to support and work closely with the Latrobe Valley FNC since then. Originally called the Gippsland Field Naturalists Club, the name was changed to the Latrobe Valley Field Naturalists Club in early 1961. Notable founding members of the Latrobe Valley FNC include botanist and Australian Natural History Medallion recipient Jean Galbraith , Don Lyndon and Medal of

275-460: The salamander of Francis I of France , the boar of Richard III of England and the armillary sphere of Manuel I of Portugal . In the fifteenth and sixteenth century, there was a fashion, started in Italy, for making large medals with a portrait head on the obverse and the emblem on the reverse; these would be given to friends and as diplomatic gifts . Pisanello produced many of

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300-621: The General Manager of the Victorian Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands, complementing the quality and significance of the magazine. The club's publications have also received compliments from the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria for the "information and detailed introduction to the history and geology of the Latrobe Region". The club and its members have published a number of books, nature guides and leaflets, discussing

325-411: The Latrobe Valley FNC was designed by artist Beatrice Rowles and features the flying duck-orchid ( Caleana major ). The Australian grass tree ( Xanthorrhoea australis ) has also been used in the club's branding, including a 1965 car sticker that was sold at field naturalist camps across Australia. The Latrobe Valley FNC holds monthly meetings from January to November, usually on the fourth Friday of

350-611: The Morwell National Park, Lyndon's Clearing on the Fosters Gully Nature Trail was named in her honour. The Latrobe Valley FNC publishes a bimonthly magazine, the Latrobe Valley Naturalist , which has been published continuously since 1963. Issues include short articles, details of upcoming events, and reports of excursions, camps, meetings and presentations. In 1986 the club received official thanks from

375-603: The National Parks Authority and Land Conservation Council to conserve Morwell National Park, which was a tree orchard in Yinnar South in the 1950s, due to the unique plant and animal life that lived in it, including the rare butterfly orchid ( Sarcochilus australis ), identified by club members Eulalie and Os Brewster. In 1982, a report by the Land Conservation Council recommended the park be reassessed as

400-611: The Order of Australia recipient Ellen Lyndon , who received the award in recognition for her work with both the Latrobe Valley FNC and the FNCV. The club has worked throughout its history to establish and protect nature reserves in the region, including the Morwell National Park , which was established by a 1967 Act of Parliament, and Holey Plains State Park , which was declared in 1973. Club members Ellen Lyndon and Jim Peterson lobbied

425-543: The culturally-informed viewer, a characteristic of the 16th-century artistic movement called Mannerism . A popular collection of emblems, which ran to many editions, was presented by Francis Quarles in 1635. Each of the emblems consisted of a paraphrase from a passage of Scripture, expressed in ornate and metaphorical language, followed by passages from the Christian Fathers, and concluding with an epigram of four lines. These were accompanied by an emblem that presented

450-401: The earliest and finest of these. A symbol, on the other hand, substitutes one thing for another, in a more concrete fashion: A totem is specifically an animal emblem that expresses the spirit of a clan . Emblems in heraldry are known as charges . The lion passant serves as the emblem of England, the lion rampant as the emblem of Scotland . An icon consists of an image (originally

475-537: The first emblem book , the Emblemata of the Italian jurist Andrea Alciato launched a fascination with emblems that lasted two centuries and touched most of the countries of western Europe. "Emblem" in this sense refers to a didactic or moralizing combination of picture and text intended to draw the reader into a self-reflective examination of their own life . Complicated associations of emblems could transmit information to

500-667: The inscriptions—to the architectural ornaments (ornamenta). Since the publication of De re aedificatoria (1452) by Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472), patterned after the De architectura by the Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius , emblema are related to Egyptian hieroglyphics and are considered as being the lost universal language. Therefore, the emblems belong to the Renaissance knowledge of antiquity which comprises not only Greek and Roman antiquity but also Egyptian antiquity as proven by

525-447: The month. Meetings usually include a guest speaker presenting on a natural history or conservation topic. Members and visitors are welcome to attend both the meetings and the monthly excursions, which are usually held the day after the monthly meetings. The club also organises spring and summer field camps and has two special interest groups, a Botany Group and a Bird Group, which hold their own meetings, field trips and surveys. The club

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550-492: The natural history and ecological of the region. These publications include: Emblem An emblem is an abstract or representational pictorial image that represents a concept , like a moral truth , or an allegory , or a person, like a monarch or saint . Although the words emblem and symbol are often used interchangeably, an emblem is a pattern that is used to represent an idea or an individual. An emblem develops in concrete, visual terms some abstraction:

575-678: The numerous obelisks built in 16th and 17th century Rome. Evidence of the use of emblems in pre-Columbian America has also been found, such as those used in Mayan city states, kingdoms, and even empires such as the Aztec or Inca . The use of these in the American context does not differ much from the contexts of other regions of the world, being even the equivalent of the coats of arms of their respective territorial entities. The 1531 publication in Augsburg of

600-524: The park of was secured in 1987, when the Minister for Conservation, Forests and Lands, Joan Kirner , visited the park in recognition of its significance and met with members of the Latrobe Valley FNC and Friends of Morwell. The club has continued to work with the Friends of Morwell and support conservation of the land, including seed planting initiatives and publishing nature guides of local species. In recognition of Ellen Lyndon's efforts to develop and conserve

625-497: The symbols displayed in the accompanying passage. Emblems are certain gestures which have a specific meaning attached to them. These meanings are usually associated with the culture they are established in. Using emblems creates a way for humans to communicate with one another in a non-verbal way. An individual waving their hand at a friend, for example, would communicate "hello" without having to verbally say anything. Although sign language uses hand gestures to communicate words in

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