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very solid. His opinion was that the whole of the rock was a 

 plastic limestone. It was a form of comminuted shells; and here 

 and there, owing to different causes, there had been a sufficient 

 decomposition of the limestone, so to speak, to fuse masses of this 

 plastic limestone on certain horizons. 



Dr. Dendy read a paper on "Land Planarians from Queensland." 



Mr. Lucas remarked that it was strange that in the Queensland 

 collection there should be so many genera and so few species. 



Dr. Dendy said that Professor Spencer, who had collected the 

 specimens described, had remarked that Queensland was not 

 nearly so good a collecting ground for Land Planarians as 

 Victoria. 



Thursday, December 10th. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and duly 

 confirmed. 



Mr. Griffiths stated that, at the last meeting of the Antarctic 

 Exploration Committee, the question whether there should be 

 two Secretaries had been raised. Hitherto, Mr. Rusden had 

 represented the Royal Society as Secretary on the Committee, 

 and the Royal Geographical Society had also been represented 

 by a Secretary. Mr. Rusden having resigned this position, 

 Baron von Mueller had raised the question as to whether the 

 Royal Society should appoint a second Secretary. 



Mr. Ellery did not think there was any ad^■antage to be 

 gained by having two Secretaries, and moved " That nominations 

 of members of the Royal Society to the Antarctic Committee be 

 nominations of members only." 



Mr. Griffiths seconded the motion, which was carried. 



Mr. Bakei', Associate, and Mr. Oldfield, Member, signed the 

 Roll, and were introduced to the meeting. 



Messrs. J. Lillie McKay and A. E. T. Swanson were nominated 

 as Members. 



On the motion of Professor Spencer, seconded by Mr. Ellery, 

 Messrs. Fenton and Mooi's were re-elected Auditors. 



Professor Spencer gave notice that, at the next General 

 Meeting, he intended to propose certain amendments of the Laws 

 of the Society, which would be fully set out in the notice paper 

 for the March Meeting. These alterations had two objects, first, 

 consequential alterations to allow of there being one Secretary 

 instead of two, and second, amendmejits dealing with the Sections 

 of the Society. 



