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SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING. 

 31,ST August, 1921. 



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



Business. To consider the Council's recommendation that a new set of 

 Rules, numbered i. to Iviii., replace the existing Rules. 



It was unanimously resolved, on the motion of Mr. J. H. Campbell, seconded 

 by Mr. A. F. Basset Hull, that the draft rules submitted, a printed copy of which 

 had been forwarded to each member, be adopted as the Rules of the Society in 

 accordance with the Societs^'s Act of Incorporation. 



ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 

 31ST August, 1921. 



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



Mr. Alexander N. Burns, Roslyn, Salisbury Road, Rose Bay, was elected 

 an Ordinary Member of the Society. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous monthly meeting 

 (27th July, 1921), amounting to 28 Vols., 135 Parts or Nos., 12 Bulletins, 9 % 



Reports and 1 Pamphlet, received from 65 Societies and Institutions and two 

 private donors were laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. W. F. Blakely exhibited from the National Herbarium two exotic 

 Caryophyllaceous plants new for the State. (1) Saponaria Calabrica Guss., 

 from the hill opposite Cave House, Jenolan Caves (W. F. Blakely, Oct., 1899), 

 Mr. J. Wilson, who for a number of years was proprietor of the Cave House, 

 expressed the opinion that it was introduced in foreign chaff that he brought to 

 the Caves. (2) Silene noctiflora L. "Night Silene or Clammy Cockle." Ulong 

 near Coramba (W. Heron, Feb., 1913). This plant is said to be a native of 

 Sweden and Germany, but it is now a cosmopolitan weed. In various parts of 

 the United States it is a pest in agricultural areas, and its seeds sometimes form 

 one of the impurities of Lucerne seed. 



