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ORDINARY :M0NTHLY MEETING. 



September 25tb, 1918. 



Professor H. G. Gliapiiicui. ^[.D., B.S., President, in tlie Cliair. 



The Piesident announced tliat tlie Council had (;ome to the 

 conclusion, that tlie proposed scheme "to create a miniature 

 Australia in its primary conditions," on Pulhah Island in Lake 

 Macquarie, as mentioned at hist Meeting, was not a matter in 

 wliich the Society could move with advantage, at present. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting (28th August, 1918), amounting to 4 Yols., 38 

 Parts or Nos., 5 Bulletins, 1 Report, and 2 Pamphlets, received 

 from 30 Societies, etc., were laid upon the table 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Dr. J. B Oleland mentioned that, on two consecutive days in 

 August last, he had heard and seen a Little Penguin, Eiidpytula 

 minor, off Kurraba Point, in Neutral Ba^^ 



Dr. R. J. Tillyard exhibited a slide of some transverse sections 

 of the Saccoid Caudal Gills of the larva of the Dragoni^y Fseudo- 

 phcea sp., (Fam. CalopterygidcE) from Java, sent by Dr. F. Ris, of 

 Rheinau, Switzerland. In this preparation, the alveoli show 

 some remarkable structures, described originally by Dr. Ris as 

 '"moss-like branching tufts of standing fibrils," and considered 

 by him to be special respiratory organs of the gill. From the 

 photographs which Dr. Ris published of these sections, Dr. 

 Tillyard concluded that thny were artefacts, a conclusion which 

 Dr. Ris is unwilling to accept. He therefore sent the slide in 

 support of his opinion. The slide shows many alveoli in which 

 the fibril-tufts project considerably beyond the boundary of a 

 single alveolus. They were examined under the microscope by 



