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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 



September 27th, 1911. 

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



Mr. C. Coles, Roseville, and Archdeacon F. E. Haviland, 

 Cobar, were elected Ordinary Members of the Society. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly ^Meeting (30th August, 1911j, amounting to 9 Vols., 

 56 Parts or Nos., 11 Bulletins, 3 Reports, and 4 Pamphlets, 

 received from 41 Societies, Ac, and 2 Individuals, were laid 

 upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. D. G. Stead fumt, for exhibition, an undetermined osi- 

 gerous Pycnogonid, obtained off Nobbys, Newcastle, on the first 

 of the month. 



Mr. Steel exhibited specimens of the fresh-water ship-worm, 

 Calohcdes flnviatilis Hedley, (These Proceedings, 1898, p. 91), 

 and a piece of a red-gum pile riddled with their burr-ows, 

 from fresh water, Ba River, Fiji. This organism has now been 

 found in fresh water in three different rivers in Fiji, the Rewa, 

 Navua, and Ba. 



Mr. Baker exhibited (I) a specimen of Fames lucidus Fr., a 

 fungus found growing on Forest Oak props (Casuarina sp.) in 

 the coal-mine at Catherine Hill, Belmont, near Newcastle, N.S.W. 

 It grows in clusters and at the tops of the props; the example 

 shown measured 2ft. 10.1 inches in length, the longest previously 

 recorded being 10 inches. It was discovered by JNlr. W. G. 

 Hall; and this is the first notice of its occurrence in New Soutli 

 Wales on this particular host and in this situation. (2) Also a 

 specimen of the hark of Melalenni hvdcteaUi F.v.M., which is 

 quite unique amongst its congeners, in respect of the characters 

 of the baric. 



