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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 



August 30tb, 1911. 



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



Mr. F. M. Clements, M.P.S., Stanmore, was elected an Ordin- 

 ary Member of the Society. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting (26th July, 1911), amounting to '20 Vols., 

 97 Parts or Nos., 26 Bulletins, 2 Reports, 6 Pamphlets, and 

 1 Map, received from 57 Societies, &c., and one Individual, were 

 laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



By permission of the Curator of the Australian Museum, Mr. 

 A. R. McCuUoch exhibited representatives of six species of 

 fishes collected at Murray Island, Torres Strait — Ghjphisodon 

 zoiiatiis Cuv. &. Val., Stet/iOJiUis axillaris Quoy & Gaim., Platy- 

 g/ossiis notopsis K. & v.Hass., Rhinogohms neophytus Gunth., 

 Oxi/monacaiithiis longirostrU Bl. & Schn., and CmiUiigasler 

 valeniini Bleek.,(C. cinclus Rich.?). All are well known species 

 from the Indian and Pacific Oceans, but do not apppear to have 

 been recorded from Australia. 



Mr. Fred. Turner exhibited and offered observations on Poa 

 saxicola R. Br., which was collected, with numerous other grasses 

 and forage plaftts on the " Snow-Leases " on the Australian Alps, 

 by Mr. R. H. Gowland who forwarded them to the exhibitor for 

 identification. So far as he was aware, this was the second 

 specimen only that had been collected on the Australian con- 

 tinent; the first having been recorded by him in the Society's 

 Proceedings for 1893. I'oa saxicola may be regarded as the larest 

 Australian grass. It was first found on INIount Wellington, Tas- 



mania. 



Mr. Turner also showed a number of interesting grasses indi- 

 genous to North Australia, forming part of a collection of forage 



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