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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 



October 29th, 1913. 



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



The President announced that the Council was prepared to 

 receive applications for four Linnean Macleay Fellowships, 

 tenable for one year from April 1st, 1914, from qualified Candi- 

 dates. Applications should be lodged with the Secretary, who 

 would afford all necessary information to intending Candidates, 

 not later than 29th November, 1913. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting (24th September, 1913), amounting to 12 Vols., 

 102 Parts or Nos., 15 Bulletins, 1 Report, and 15 Pamphlets, 

 received from 59 Societies, etc., and 1 Author, were laid upon 

 the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. D. G. Stead exhibited two Calif ornian Rainbow Trout, 

 Salmo irideus Gibbons, hatched from eggs stripped from parent- 

 fish already acclimatised in this State. The Rainbow Trout ex- 

 hibited were reared at the Government Trout Farm at Prospect, 

 near Sydney; and though differing so greatly in point of size, 

 were both yearlings, and had been grown under the same environ- 

 mental conditions. The smaller measured 120 mm., and weighed 

 l T ^oz., while the larger was 362 mm., and of a weight of no less 

 than 1 lb. 2Joz.! Mr. Stead stated that the growth of many of 

 the yearling Trout during the past year had been quite pheno- 

 menal (notwithstanding the comparatively unsuitable natural 

 conditions prevailing at Prospect), and nothing like it had pre- 

 viously been attained at this hatchery. Those exhibited were 

 respectively (approximately) the smallest and the largest of about 

 350 yearlings at present retained in the hatchery ponds. About 

 50 had attained, approximately, the size of the largest shown, 



