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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 

 July 31st, 1912. 

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



Messrs. Gregory M. Mathews, Watford, England; J. Alex- 

 ander Thomson, Sydney; and James B. Ward, Rockhampton, 

 Q., were elected Ordinary Members of the Society. 



A communication from Mrs. George Masters, returning thanks 

 for sympathy in bereavement, was read to the Meeting. 



The President called the attention of Members to the Pro- 

 grammes of the Fourteenth Meeting of the Australasian Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, to be held in Melbourne in 

 January, 1913; and of the Twelfth Session of the International 

 Geological Congress, to be held in Canada, in August, 1913. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting (26th June, 1912), amounting to 11 Vols., 

 106 Parts or Nos., 14 Bulletins, and 11 Pamphlets, received 

 from 59 Societies and 3 Individuals, were laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. T. Steel exhibited an egg of an unusually dark colour, laid 

 by a Muscovy duck. The tint of tlie shell was quite as dark as 

 that of the egg of the Emu. 



Mr. D. G. Stead reported that the recent storms along the 

 New South Wales coast had wrought enormous havoc among 

 reef-frequenting organisms. Fishes of many species had been 

 cast up, including such large rock-frequenting forms as the 

 Snapper, Pagrosomus auratus, and the Black Rock-Cod, Epine- 

 phehis dcumelii. Many of the latter had been thrown up along 

 the coast between Port Jackson and Port Hacking. Mr. Stead 

 stated that he had never heard of Black Rock-Cod being cast up 

 before, by the violence of the waves, and the fact of their being 

 present among the flotsam and jet.sam showed that the violent 

 wave-action had reached to most unusual depths. 



