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ORDINAEY MONTHLY MEETING. 

 28th April, 1920. 

 Mr. J. J Fletcher, M.A., B.Sc-. President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. William Faris Blakely, Butanie Gartlens, Sydney; Arthur 

 Neville St. George Handcock Burkitt, B.Sc, M.H., Lecturer in Anatomy, The 

 University of Sydney, H.4rry Flocktox Clarke, The Hillside, View St., Chats- 

 wood; Rt. Rev. JO.SEPH Wilfrid Dwyer, R.C. Bishop of Wagga; Albert H. 

 Elston, 50 Lefevre Terrace, North Adelaide; Anthony Musghave, Wycombe 

 Road, Neutral Bay; Torrington Hawke Pincombe, B.A., Public School, May- 

 field, Waratah; and Augustus Selwyn Taylor, Geological Survey of N.S.W., 

 Sydney, were elected Ordinary Members of the Society. 



The President announced that the Council had elected ]\Iessrs. C. Hedlev, 

 F.L.S., W. W. Froggatt, F. L.S.. A. G. Hamilton, and Professor H. G. 

 Chapman, M.D., B.S., to be Vice-Presidents; and Mr. J. H. Campbell (Royal 

 Mint, Sydney) to be Hon. Treasurer for the current Session, 1920-21. 



Tiie President announced that a Special General Meeting of the Society will 

 be held on Monday, 14th ,Iune, for the purpose of celebrating the centenary of the 

 birth of Sir William Macleay. 



The President reminded members of the Council's invitation to subscribe to- 

 wards the cost of the Honour Roll. 



The President also reminded members of the Council's request tiiat notices of 

 exhibits should be curtailed and confined to the scientific significance of the objects 

 exhibited . 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous Monthly Meeting 

 (31st March, 1920), amounting to 9 Vols., 49 Parts or Nos., 7 Bulletins, 4 Reports, 

 and 8 Pamphlets, etc., received from 46 Societies and Institutions, and one private 

 donor, were laid upon the table. 



notes and exhibits. 



Mr. Fred Turner exhibited a specimen of, and offered observations on, Amar- 

 antvs macrocarpiis Bentli.. which, after the January and February rains of this 

 year, covered, with Boerhuavia diffusa Linn., thousands of acres of Wootton Sta- 

 tion, Upper Hunter, to the exclusion of all other herliage, including many noxious 

 exotic weeds which previously had been abundant. The first-named plant, locally 

 known as "Boggabri," has Ijeen used for salad, for which it is considered superior 

 to "water cress." 



Several years ago the late Honble. G. H. Cox, M.L.C., brought to the exhibitor 

 for identification from his station on the Liverpool Plains a specimen of Stipa 

 iiristirjliimis F. v. M., that was nine feet six inches tall. That growtii had resulted 

 from heavy summer rains, and had completely suppressed thistles which had pre- 

 viously occupied thousands of acres on his property. 



