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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 



August 28th, 1918. 



Professor H. G. Chapman, M.D., B.S., President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. John Hopson, Junr , D^alkeith, Eccleston, N.8.W.; 

 and Frederick P. Dodd, Kuranda, Nortli Queensland, were 

 elected Ordinary Members of tlie Society. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting (31st July, 1918), amounting to 2 Yols., 44 

 Parts or Nos., 7 Bulletins, 1 Report, and 5 Pamphlets, received 

 from 37 Societies, etc., and two private donors, were laid upon 

 the table 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. ^Y. W. Froggatt showed a fine series of Coeeid galls on 

 Eucalypts, commonly know^n as Brachyscelid galls, attributable 

 to members of the genus Apiomorpha: a remarkal)le gall due to 

 Cynips on Live Oaks in California; and an undetermined, living 

 snake from Moree, N.S.W. 



Mr. Fletcher exhibited specimens oi Melaleuca Deanei F.v.M., 

 and photographs of the largest plants seen (about 8-9 feet high, 

 and 4-5 inches in diameter at the base) ; and specimens of 

 Petrophila sessilis Sieb. — two of the rarer plants of the Lane 

 Cove District, to be met with only in small, isolated groups. 



The Secretary communicated a letter from the Dalley Branch 

 of the Australian Society of Patriots at Newcastle, advocating 

 the reservation of Pulbah Island in Lake Macquarie. Mr. J. 

 Mitchell, who had visited the island, offered some favourable 

 remarks. Further consideration was postponed. 



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