WEDNESDAY, 29th SEPTEMBER, 1886. 



The President, Professor W. J. Stephens, M.A., F.G.S., in the 

 Chair. 



MEMBER ELECTED. 



Dr. S. H. MacCulloch, Sydney, was elected a Member of the 

 Society. 



The President announced that two excursions had been arranged 



for the ensuing month :- 



(1.) October 9th. — Members to meet at the Railway Station 

 Penrith, at 11 a.m., to proceed by steamer to Norton's 

 Basin, Nepean River. Steamer provided. Dr. Cox in 



charge. 



(2.) October 23rd. — Members to meet at St. Mary's Station, 

 G. W. R., at 11 a.m., for a walk towards Rooty Hill. 

 Dr. Cox in charge. 



DONATIONS. 



"Abstract of Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania." 

 August, 1886. From the Society. 



" Encyclopaedia Britannica." Ninth Edition. Yol. XX. ; " Re- 

 port of the Scientific Results of the Exploring Yoyage of H.M.S. 

 Challenger, 1873-1876. Zoology." Yol. XIY. : " Notes from the 

 Leyden Museum, edited by Dr. F. A. Jentink." Yol. YIIL, 

 No. 2, 1886 ; " Yergleichende Morphologie und Biologie der Pilze 

 Mycetozoen und Bacterien," von A. de Bary ; " Dr. Johannes 

 Leunis' Synopsis der Thierkunde." Two vols. Third Edition revised 



