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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING 



May 29th, 1912. 



Mr. W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Marcel Aurousseau, Sydney; Mr. Walter H. Grace, 

 Sydney; Dr. Frank Howson, M.A. (Oxon.), M.R.C.S., University 

 of Sydney; and Dr. H. Leightox Kestevex, Technical College, 

 Sydney, were elected Ordinary Members of the Society. 



The President announced that the Council had elected Dr. J. 

 Burton Cleland to fill an extraordinary vacancy in the Council, 

 due to the retirement of Mr. Henry Deane, M.A., F.L.S., who.se 

 official engagements now necessitated frequent absence from 

 Sydney. 



The President regretfully announced the recent death of the 

 Rev. Thomas Blackburn, B.A., of Adelaide, a Corresponding 

 Member of the Society, and the oldest worker on the Coleoptera 

 in Australia; also, at one time, one of the Hon. Secretaries of the 

 Entomological Society of London. On the motion of Mr. H. J. 

 Carter, seconded by Mr. G. A. Waterhouse, it was resolved that 

 a letter of condolence should be sent to Mr. Blackburn's family. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting (24th Apxnl, 1912), amounting to 11 Vols, 

 69 Parts or Nos., 19 Bulletins, 3 Reports, 2 Maps, and 9 

 Pamphlets, received from 52 Societies, &c., and 2 Individuals, 

 were laid upon the table. 



NOTES and exhibits. 



Mr. Steel exhibited specimens of the Heshy corolla-tubes of the 

 Mohwa, Bassia latifolia, from India. These contain from 50 to 

 57% of their weight of sugar, which, in the specimens exhibited, 

 consists of three-fifths dextrose and two-fifths levulose. They are 

 dried like raisins or dates, and eaten in the same way. They 

 have been proposed as a source of alcohol. 



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