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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 



June 24th, 1914. 



Mr. C. Hedley, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Reginald W Brp:tnall, Gower Street, Summer Hill, was 

 elected an Ordinary Member of the Society. 



A communication from Mr. James A Barr, Manager of the 

 Panama Pacific International Exposition, 1915, and Director of 

 Congresses, was read to the Meeting by the Secretaiy. Congresses, 

 Conferences, and Conventions are to be a feature of the Exposi- 

 tion; and the Society had been invited to take part by holding a 

 Meeting The Council was desirous of ascertaining what Mem- 

 bers were likely to be able to visit the Exposition, so that a 

 reply might be sent to Mr. Barr, who is engaged in drawing up 

 his programme. The Secretary, therefore, would be glad to hear 

 as soon as possible from Members who were contemplating a visit 

 to San Francisco in 1915. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting (27th May, 1914), amounting to 15 Vols., 

 70 Parts or Nos., 18 Bulletins, 5 Reports, and 2 Pamphlets, 

 received from 41 Societies, etc., and two private donors, were laid 

 upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. W. W. Froggatt exhibited for his son, Mr. J. L. Froggatt, 

 specimens of fossil-bones obtained at Cuddie Spring, on Gilgoan 

 Station, Barwon River. Cuddie Spring is in the centre of a 

 sandy depression of about 10-15 acres in extent, in open forest- 

 land, about 15 miles from Mr. Allan Yeomans' homestead. When 

 the locality was first discovered, a mud-spring existed. Mr. 

 Yeomans sunk a well about 80 feet, and obtained a fine supply 



