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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 



September 25th, 1912. 



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



Messrs. Henry Tasman Lovell, M.A., Ph.D., Sydney; David 

 Sutherland North, Sydney; and M. A. O'Callaghan, Sydney, 

 were elected Ordinary Members of the Society. 



A letter from Dr. James C. Cox, Sydney, returning thanks for 

 the resolution expressive of sympathy in illness, passed at last 

 Meeting, was communicated to the Members. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting (28th August, 1912), amounting to 4 Vols., 

 52 Parts or Nos., 7 Bulletins, 7 Pamphlets, 1 Report, and 3 

 Maps, received from 42 Societies and 2 Individuals, were laid 

 upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. D. G. Stead exhibited a collection of oyster and cockle 

 shells from a deposit of such at the Macleay River, N.S.W. The 

 specimens were collected by Mr. J. B. Grane during the year 

 1910, and full enquiry has been made concerning them. They 

 were taken from a deposit of several acres in extent (and con- 

 taining many thousand tons of shell) situated on Portion 125, 

 Parish of Clybucca, at Broadwater, Macleay River. The deposit 

 referred to, which commences about three chains from the bank 

 of the creek, is now worked for oystei'-culture (the old shells being 

 laid out for the catchment of spat), and where so worked at, 

 shows a face of pure shell, from 6-8 feet in height. The shell is 

 in varying stages of decomposition, near the surface, almost pure 

 limey matter, while at the bottom (near which the specimens 

 exhibited were obtained and which apparently consists of alluvial 

 matter mixed with sand, estimated to be fully 12 feet above present 

 mean high- water mark) the shells were almost perfect. Above tlie 



