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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 



November 28th, 1917. 



Dr. H. G, Chapman, President, in the Chair. 



Candidates for Fellowships, 1918-19, were reminded that the 

 30th inst., was the last day on which applications would be 

 received. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting (31st October, 1917), amounting to 4 Vols., 49 

 Parts or Nos., 10 Bulletins, 5 Reports, 1 Map, and 7 Pamphlets, 

 received from 40 Societies, etc., were laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Baker showed portion of a log of Banksia latifolia R.Br., 

 \_ = B. 7'o6?tr Cav.] recently received at the Technological Museum, 

 Sydney, from Port Macquarie, where it is known as " Bastard 

 Honeysuckle." Mr. L. C. Maxwell, who collected the material, 

 reports that the largest plant, he had seen, had a height of about 

 25|^ feet, and a diameter of about 16 inches; but that he had 

 heard, from old residents, of trees as large as 2 J feet in diameter, 

 with a corresponding height. It is to be found, growing under 

 similar conditions, in swamps or on the banks of creeks, also at 

 Taree. The timber has a distinct pale pink or bluish tint, 

 dififerent from that of its congeners. It is light in weight, soft, 

 gives a good figure in radial section, but is not strong; so that 

 it may be classed as a cabinet-timber. Robert Brown, in dis- 

 carding the earlier name, said — " Hujus speciei nomen Cavanill- 

 esii mutare coactus sum, quoniam nunquam arborescit sed frutex 

 humilis est" [Trans. Linn. Soc, x., p. 208]. Either the plants 

 did not attain tree-size about Port Jackson, or the largest ones 

 may have been cut down by the earliest settlers before R. Brown 

 had a chance of seeing them. As Mr. Maiden has pointed out 

 [Forest Flora of N.S. Wales, iv., Pt.7, p. 102], Baron von Mueller 



