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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 



27th April, 1!)21. 



Mr. G. A. Waterhouse, B.Sc, B.E., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Miss Eleanor E. Chase, B.Sc., "Tavua", Macintosh Street, Gordon, Messrs. 

 AJan P. Dodd, Gordonvale, via Cairns, Q., John A. Kennedy, M.B., Ch.M., Dul- 

 wich Hill, and Ellis Le G. Troughton. Australian Museum, Sydney, were elected 

 Ordinary Members of the Society. 



The President offered the congratulations of members to Professor J. P. 

 HiU (in absentia) on his appointment to the Chair of Embryology at University 

 College, London, and to Professor T. T. Flynn on his attaining the Doctorate 

 of Science of the University of Sydney. 



An appeal was read from the Mikrographische GeseUschaft, Vienna, for 

 funds to carry on its laboratory. 



The Secretary exhibited a photograph of the garden of Linnaeus at Upsala, 

 presented to the Society by Colonel Roth. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous monthly meeting 

 (30th March, 1921), amounting to 19 Vols., 418 Parts or Nos., 1 Bulletin, 1 

 Report and 1 Pamphlet, received from 45 Societies and Institutions and three 

 private donors, were laid ujion the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Fred. Turner exhibited and offered observations on the following plants: — 

 (1) Myosurus minimus Linn., found near Bourke, November, 1920. He had not 

 previously seen this plant growing west of the Darling River, consequently it 

 was not included in his botanical survey of that part of New South Wales (These 

 Proceedings, 1903). (2) He called attention to the finding of a plant of Tecoma 

 Hillii F.v.M. on Eraser Is. by Mr. W. R. Petrie, a Queensland Forestry Officer. 

 This plant had been exhibited at a meeting of this Society in 1903 by Mr. Turner 

 who had discovered it at Hervey Bay in 1876. (3) Eryngium rostratum Cav., a 

 specimen of which the exhibitor had received for determination from Mr. R. Baird, 

 Multagoona, Darling River. Mr. Baird had written "tliat this plant was eaten 

 ravenously by all classes of stock, even when other good pasture feed was abun- 

 dant. 



Mr. R. T. Baker exhibited herbarium specimens and timber of a new species 

 of Eucalyptus from Hill Top, known locally as "Blue Stringy Bark." A full 

 description of the species and its economics will be submitted to the Society at 

 an early date. 



