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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 



July 30th, 1913. 



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



Mr. C. H. Burton Bradley, M.B., Ch.M., D.P.H., University 

 of Sydney, was elected an Ordinary Member of the Society. 



The President formally announced the decease of a Member, 

 Mr. E. Betche, since the last Meeting. Mr. Betche joined the 

 Society in 1887; for many years was Senior Botanical Assistant 

 at the Sydney Botanic Gardens, and was an experienced and 

 very capable taxonomic botanist. 



Mr. Maiden bore testimony to Mr. Betche's worth, and said 

 that, in spite of delicate health, his late colleague had accom- 

 plished much strenuous and valuable work. 



Attention was called to communications from : (1) The Royal 

 Society of South Australia, giving particulars of the Society's 

 offer of monetary grants in aid of scientific research: and (2) Dr. 

 A. R. Crook, Springfield, 111., U.S.A., representing a committee 

 appointed by the Illinois State Academy to consider the question 

 of calendar-reform, submitting proposals for reforming the calen- 

 dar, and inviting expressions of opinion thereon. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting (25th June, 1913), amounting to 18 Vols., 92 

 Parts or Nos., 22 Bulletins, 2 Reports, and 5 Pamphlets, received 

 from 64 Societies, <fcc, were laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS 



Dr. Kesteven asked to be allowed to rectify an omission in 

 his paper " On a new Endoparasitic Copepod [Ubius hill%\ " in 

 Part 4 of the Society's Proceedings for 1912, recently issued. It 



