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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28th, 1907. 



The Ordinaiy Monthly Meeting of the Society was held in 

 the Linnean Hall, Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on Wednesday 

 evening, August 28th, 1907. 



Mr. A. H. S. Lucas, M.A., B.Sc, President, in the Chair. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting, amounting to 5 Vols., 51 Parts or Nos., 4 

 Bulletins, 3 Reports, 9 Pamphlets, received from 43 Societies, 

 <fec., and 3 Individuals, were laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. David G. Stead oflfered a preliminary record of the occur- 

 rence of that most archaic of modern Selachian forms, Chlamy- 

 doselachus, in the waters of New South Wales, an announcement 

 which would be received with great interest by zoologists. The 

 record was based upon portions of a specimen cast ashore some 

 time since, in Rose Bay, Port Jackson, comprising the skull and 

 about 150 vertebrae. The specimen measured more than 10 feet 

 in length. Only one species of the genus is known, C. anguineus 

 Garman, from the Sea of Sagami, Japan, as well as from deep 

 waters in the vicinity of Madeira, the Azores and the coast of 

 Norway; while the length of the largest specimens hitherto known, 

 appeared to be about 5 feet. 



Dr. J. B. Cleland of Perth, W.A., contributed a Note on 

 "The Resistance of the Vegetation of Australia to Bush-Fires, 

 and the Antiquity of the Australian Aboriginal," with the 

 object of suggesting that, if it can be proved that the vegetation 

 of Australia has been modified iu the course of atjes so as to have 



