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ORDINARY. MONTHLY MEETING. 



September 30th, 1914. 



Mr. W. S. Dun, President, in the Chair. 



A letter from Dr. C. MacLaurin was communicated, returning 

 thanks for the expression of the Society's sympathy, evoked by 

 the decease of Sir Normand MacLaurin, the senior surviving 

 Original Member of the Society. 



By the kindness of the Local Hon. Secretary, British Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science (Sydney Meeting, August, 

 1914), copies of the Sydney Address of the President (Prof. 

 Bateson) were available for distribution to Members of the 

 Society (on application to the Secretary) 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting 1 26th August, 1914), amounting to 5 Vols., 

 41 Parts or Nos., 2 Reports, 1 Map, and 6 Pamphlets, received 

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

 the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



The Rev. W. W. Watts exhibited a specimen of Robert 

 Brown's FJatyzoraa microphyllum, showing a character generally 

 overlooked in descriptions, probably because seldom present, 

 namely, a cluster of small, filiform leaves, growing out of the 

 rhizome, close to the clustered fertile fronds. These are, in all 

 probability, the sterile fronds; they are quite entire, and only 

 about one-fifth the length of the fertile fronds. Though omitted 

 in most descriptions, these small fronds were not overlooked by 

 Robert Brown, who wrote at the end of his description (Prodr., 



