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Es sind demnach gewählt: 



1) Herr Prof. L. von Graff zum Vorsitzenden, 



2) - - R. H er twig zu dessen 1. Stellvertreter, 



3) - - C. Chun - - 2. 



4) - - A.Brauer - - 3. 



5) - - E. Korscheit zum Schriftführer. 



Die Gewählten haben sich dem bisherigen Herrn Vorsitzenden zur 

 Annahme der Wahl bereit erklärt. 



2. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



Abstract of Proceedings, October 30th, 1907. — Mr. David G. Stead 

 exhibited a well preserved example of the curious so-called "Beaked Salmon' , 

 Gonorhyrichus gonorhijyicims (Linné) which has usually been looked upon as 

 one of the rarest members of the New South Wales fish fauna, and which 

 was recorded from these waters for the first time, by Ogilby, in the Society's 

 Proceedings for 1899 (p. 154). Specimens from the following localities on 

 the coast of New South Wales had been examined: Tuggerah Lakes (two 

 records); Port Jackson; Botany Bay; Como, George's River; WoUongong; 

 Lake lUawarra (two records); from the mouth of a snapper captured 3 miles 

 east of Greenwell Point Lighthouse (this was a young specimen and is a very 

 interesting record); Conjola Lake. In the case of the second record at Lake 

 Illawarra (June, 1906) many specimens, aggregating about half a basket, were 

 captured in oûe haul. — 1) On the Tertiary Limestones and Foraminiferal 

 Tuffs of Malekula, New Hebrides. By F. Chapman, A.L.S., F.R.M.S., 

 National Museum, Melbourne. (Communicated by D. M aw son). — The 

 series of rocks from Malekula now under discussion, form part of the exten- 

 sive and valuable collection made by Mr. Douglas Mawson, B.Sc, B.E. in 

 1903. The present paper deals exclusively with the Miocene and the post- 

 Miocene (probably Pliocene) rocks of the Island of Malekula, south of Santo; 

 and although the specimens comprised in this part of the collection are not 

 numerous, this is amply compensated for by their extremely interesting na- 

 ture. — Among the interesting facts in distribution brought to light may be 

 mentioned the occui'rence of Ti illina in the New Hebrides, a genus already 

 proved to exist in southern Australia and the Philipjjines, which thereby 

 seems to connect up the southern coast of Australia with the outlying islands 

 of eastern Australasia and certain portions of the East Indian Archipelago, 

 along which line in Oligocene and Miocene times there probably existed a 

 shallow-water area where such littoral forms could flo\irish. — The new species 

 0Î Alveolina found in the Malekula limestone, althoughnot previously described, 

 had already been figured from Javan Miocene limestones, and thus a relation- 

 ship is shown with the latter rocks. — By the discovery oi Lepidocyclina an- 

 gularis at Malekula, already known from Miocene limestone in the Loo-Choo 

 Islands, off Japan, there is shown a further extension of the Miocene shore- 

 line as far north as Japan. — 2) On a Collection of Dragonflies from Central 

 Australia, with Descriptions of new Species. By 11. J. Till yard, M.A., 

 F.E.S. — The collection was made by Mr. J. F. Field, late of Tennant"s Creek, 

 Northern Territory, and may be regarded as probably typical of the Odonate 

 fauna of Central Australia. Though the locality is well within the Tropics, 



