288 ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



R.S. TAS. 



(Fagus Cunniiighami), and stated that a similar fungus 

 was found on a closelj^ allied species of beech in South 

 America, and in no other part of the world. 



Vacancies in the Council. 

 The Honorary Acting Secretary announced that Dr. J. 

 S. Purdy and Mr. Samuel Clemes had resigned their seats 

 in the Council, and that an election to fill the vacancies 

 would be held at the August meeting of the Society. 



Pajjer. 



Dr. F. Noetling read a paper entitled, ''Notes on the 

 Section at One Tree Point, near Hobart." 



A discussion followed, in which Mr. Podway referred to 

 Ettingshausen's identifications of the plant remains in the 

 One Tree Point beds. Mr. Podway said that nowadays 

 plant palaeontologists hesitated to identify fossil leaves by 

 their similarity to the leaves of existing species. The leaves 

 of plants were essentially plastic organs, of little phylo- 

 genetic value. There were three plants living to-day in 

 Tasmania — one a composite, one a heath, and one a styli- 

 dium — whose leaves could not be distinguished from one 

 another. The fruits found in the One Tree Point leaf beds 

 led one to suppose that the plants that formed them be- 

 longed to the proteaceous family. They certainly did not 

 belong to any European family of plants. 



11th August, 1913. 



The Monthly General Meeting was held at the Museum 

 at 8 p.m., Mr. L. Podway in the chair. 



Election of Members of Council. 

 Professor T. Thomson Flynn and Dr. J. L. Glasson, be- 

 ing the only members nominated to fill the vacancies in 

 the Council caused by the retirement of Dr. J. S. Purdy 

 and Mr. Samuel Clemes, were declared elected. 



Election of Members. 

 The following were elected members : — Mr. T. C. Bram- 

 mall, M.A., Mr. W. C. Annells, M.A. 



Paj^er — Educational Exjyeriments. 



Mr. J. A. Johnson, Principal of the Philip Smith Train- 

 ing College, read a paper, entitled ''Pecent Developments 

 in Experimental Pedagogy." 



In the course of his paper, Mr. Johnson observed that. 



