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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 



August 28th, 1912. 



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



Messrs. Gilbert M. Goldfinch, Mosman ; Albert H. W. 

 Peick, Sydney; and Rev. Walter W. Watts, Gladesville, were 

 elected Ordinary Members of the Society. 



On the motion of Mr. David G. Stead, who reported the serious 

 illness of Dr. James C. Uox, an active Member and some time 

 President of the Society in its early days, it was resolved that a 

 message of sympathy from the Members present should be con- 

 veyed to him by letter. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting (31st July, 1912). amounting to 5 Vols., 55 

 Parts or Nos., 30 Bulletins, 5 Reports, and 11 Pamphlets, received 

 from 47 Societies and two Individuals, were laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Steel exhibited an acorn from a tree of Querciis peduncu- 

 lata, growing in the Domain, Sydney, having each cotyledon 

 subdivided symmetrically into two unequal-sized lobes, thus 

 forming four distinct cotyledons. This was the only abnormal 

 example noticed amongst many hundreds examined. 



Mr. D. G. Stead exhibited photographs of a large Southern 

 Ribbon-Fish, Trachijpterns jacksoiiensis (Ramsay), which had 

 been taken during the month at Milton, N.S.W. The fish 

 measured over all 2,195 mm. (7ft. 2| inches) in length, but 

 as the end of the finely-tapering tail had been broken off, 

 it was probably about 250 mm. longer, at capture. The fol- 



