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ORDIXARV :\r()XTHLY MEETING. 

 25th August, 1920. 

 Mr. .J. .J. Fletfher. M.A.. B.Si-., Piesideut, in the Cliair. 



Mr. NORMAX Bartlett I'rienu. 42 Pile Street. Dulwii'h Hill, was eleeted an 

 Ordinary Member of the Society. 



The President made regretful reference to the death of Mr. F. M. Clements, 

 who had been a member of the Society since 1911. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the jirevious Monthly Meeting 

 (28th July, 1920), amounting to 2 Volumes, 49 Parts or Nos., 2 Bulletins, 1 

 Report and 2 Pamphlets, received from 45 Societies and Institutions and one 

 private donor, were laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. T. Steel exhibited a jiortion of the liver uf a domestic fowl showing a 

 common pin one inch in length embedded in the liver substance. Both ends 

 of the pin projected for several mm., and were enveloped in liver tissue, the 

 head and point bein;-' distinctly outlined. The pin must have been swallowed and 

 then worked its way through the tissues until it became tixed in the position found. 

 Mr. Steel mentioned having been shown the crop of a domestic duck which was 

 crammed with common pins picked up by the bird when running about a back 

 verandah where dressmaking was going un. 



Mr. W. W. Frogg'att exhibited specimens of the larva of the t'up moth 

 {Apoda xylomeli) on a Waratah from Sydney. 



Miss Y. Irwin Smith exhibited a female specimen of the conuuon "hug moth" 

 {Metura elongata Saunders), and gave an account of its observed method of pro- 

 gression up a vertical pane of glass. In climbinsi; it clung to a narrow transverse 

 bar of silky threads by its forelegs, while it spun a similar bar about half an incli 

 higher up, and in two hours spun over 80 rung's and climbed a vertical distance of 

 four feet. Each rung was cumposed of 7 or 9 strands, the rung always being 

 commenced on tiie right side and finished on the left. The threads are not sticky, 

 but each is glued down securely at both ends by some adhesive substance. 



Mr. W. F. Blakely exhibited specimens from the National Herbarium of Eupa- 

 torlum glandulosum H.H. et K. in Nov. Gen. et Sp.. 1820, iv., 122, t. 34(), and 

 Crepis lietuait Hall f. in Rocni. Arch., i., 2, 1. The first is a native of Mexico, 

 and is a garden escape, which appears to be well established in several |)laces in 

 the Port Jackson district, namely — Neutral Bay (J. White); Parramatta River 

 near Gladesville bridge; Lane Cove River, Killara; head of salt water. Lane Cove 

 River; between Marsfield and Epping (W. F. Blakely). 



On the Lane Cove it is firndy established, and vegetates freily among>;t the 

 native vegetation, the moist loamy banks corresponding to some extent to the 

 moist plateaus of its native cm irdimient. except that in its native country it 



