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SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING. 

 28th September, 1921. 



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



Business : To consider the confirmation of the alterations to the Rules ap- 

 proved at the Special General Meeting on 31st August, 1921. 



On the motion of Mr. .J. H. Campbell, seconded by Mr. W. Welch, it was 

 resolved that the resolution agTeed to at the Special General Meeting on 31st 

 August, adopting the draft Rules submitted to replace the existing Rules, be now 

 confirmed. 



ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 

 28th September, 1921. 



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



JVIiss Grace Anderson, B.Sc, Park Avenue, Gordon, was elected an Ordinary 

 Member of the Society. 



The President announced that the Council had elected Dr. E. W. Ferguson 

 to be a member of the Council in place of Mr. J. E. Came, resigned. 



. The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous Monthly Meeting 

 (31st August, 1921), amoimting to 82 Vols., 92 Parts or Nos., 2 Bulletins, 1 

 Report and 41 Pamphlets, received from 36 Societies and Institutions and two 

 private donors, were laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND JISHiniTS. 



Acting-Professor L. Harrison exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Harry Burrell, 

 two living young of the platypus, O rnithorhynchus unatinus Shaw, which arrived 

 in Sydney on the morning of the meeting, having been sent by Mr. Burrell from 

 the Namoi River. The young were accompanied by two living adult females. 

 The former are estimated to tie about five weeks old. 



It was resolved to send a letter to Mr. Burrell congratulating him on the 

 results of his collecting. 



