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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 



Dr. CuTHBERT Hall, Parramatta, was elected a Member of 

 the Society. 



The President announced that the Council had to thank Pro- 

 fessor David for a very kind offer to deliver a lecture to the 

 Society on the Scientific Results of the British Antarctic Expedi- 

 tion, 1907, on some date, j^et to be fixed, in the early part of 

 November. Further particulars would be given at next Meeting. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting, amounting to 29 Vols., 72 Parts or Nos., 21 

 Bulletins, 5 Reports, and 19 Pamphlets, received from 59 

 Societies, &c., and two Individuals, were laid upon t»he table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. D. G. Stead exhibited, alive, a number of a remarkable 

 fantailed variety of the common Golden Ca,vip(Carassiics au7-aius), 

 recently brought from Japan. The specimens shown, every one 

 of which was slightly different from the others, were of the kind 

 known to the Japanese as " Ranchu " or " Shishigashira " 

 (literally " Lion-headed ") sometimes known as the " Corean 

 Goldfish." They are remarkable in that the dorsal fin has, by 

 artificial breeding, been entirely done away with. One specimen 

 shown had two anal fins. Mr. Stead also showed a living speci- 

 men of the remarkable amphibious fish, Anabas scandens, the 

 "Climbing Perch," from Singapore. This is the first record of 

 the importation of the species into New South Wales. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited a very tine and representative collec- 

 tion of Coleoptera recently obtained by him in the Solomon 

 Islands; and he pointed out the most characteristic forms. 



Mr. Lucas exhibited a number of Sea Balls, forwarded b}^ Mr. 

 G. H. Halligan from Port Stephens in Julj^ Some were globular, 

 others oval or elongated, and some flattened like a mango fruit. 

 The forms, indeed, recall those of waterworn pebbles. They vary 

 in size, the largest being 3^ inches in length. They consist of a 

 compact solid felt of closely woven fibres, which do not swell up 



