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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 



April 30th, 1913. 



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



Mr. Berkeley Harrison, Burringbar, N.S.W.; Mr. Gerald 

 F. Hill, Darwin, N.T.; Professor A. A. Lawson, University of 

 Sydney; and Mr. Alex. H. Turnbull, Wellington, N.Z., were 

 elected Ordinary Members of the Society. 



The President announced that, under the provisions of Rule 

 xxvi., the Council had elected Messrs. A. H. S. Lucas, M.A., 

 B.Sc, J. R. Garland, M.A., C. Hedley, F.L.S., and W. W. 

 Froggatt, F.L.S., to be Vice-Presidents; and Mr. J. H. Campbell 

 [Royal Mint, Macquarie Street] to be Hon. Treasurer, for the 

 Session 1912-13. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting (26th March, 1913), amounting to 10 Vols., 69 

 P art or Nos., 8 Bulletins, and 3 Reports, received from 53 

 Societies, <fcc., were laid upon the table. 



notes and exhibits. 



Mr. D. G. Stead reported that the heavy easterly and south- 

 easterly seas experienced during the early part of the month, had 

 caused considerable destruction of the fauna along the ocean 

 littoral. This, however, was not so great as on the occasion 

 previously recorded (These Proceedings, 1912, p. 390). At Port 

 Macquarie, numbers of Flat-tail Mu\let(Mugil peronii), Silver 

 M.Ji\\et(Muyil georgii), and Sand M.\i\\et(Myxus elongtitus), and a 

 few Blackfish (6rire^a tricuspidata) were washed ashore on the 

 south side of the breakwater. At Stockton Beach, Newcastle, 

 during the height of the storm, many Sea Mu\\et(Mugil dobula), 

 Freshwater M ullet( Trachystoma petardi), Black Bream( CTiryso- 

 phrys australis), Sand Whitmg(Sillago ciliata), Blackfish, and 

 Jewfi.sh(Scicena antarctica), and a Dart ( Trachinotus bailloniiY 



