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1913. 



Papers. 



The following papers were read : — 



■'Some Australian Brachiopods. By Professor Fried- 



rich Blochmann, of Tiibingen (communicated b}^ Mr. W. 

 L. May). 



"Notes on the List of Native Words of the Oyster Bay 

 Tribe presented bv Mr. J. W. Beat-tie at the June meet- 

 ing.' By H. B. Ritz, M.A. 



Monday, 13th October, 1913. 



The Monthly Meeting of the Society, falling on 13th 

 October, was made the occasion of a celebration of the 

 Seventieth Anniversary of the Society, which was founded 

 on 14th October, 1843'. 



His Excellency the President, Sir William Ellison- 

 Macartney, was in the chair, and the Societ^^'s room was 

 crowded with members and their friends. 



Mr. Thomas Stephens, the senior member of the Society, 

 sent a letter regretting that he was not able to be present. 

 Apologies were also received from Dr. A. H. Clarke and 

 Colonel W. V. Legge. 



Exh ih its and P resent f^^t^ti on s . 



Professor T. Thomson Flynn exhibited some Pycnogonida 

 (sea spiders) collected by the Australasian Antarctic Expe- 

 dition. 



Mr. J. R. Chapman exhibited a specimen of Milparinka 

 sandstone, some handsome specimens of petrified wood- opal, 

 and gypsum, from New South Wales ; and a fossil jawbone 

 form Cheltenham, Victoria — which he was about to joresent 

 to the Tasmanian Museum. 



Mr. J. C. E. Knight presented a set of E. J. Lowes 

 'Terns, British and Exotic,'' 8 volumes. (London. 1856- 

 1860.) 



Mrs. Russell Young presented a portrait of the late Mr. 

 Kussell Young, for many years a member of the Society. 



Mr. T. W. Fowler presented to the Society — 



1. A facsimile of "Chart of Terra Australis. by M. 

 "Flinders, Comm. of H.M. Sloop Investigator, South Coast. 

 "Sheet v., 1798, 1802 & 3," published with Flinders' 

 "Voyage to Terra Australis" in 1814. This shows the 

 coast-lines bounding Bass' Strait, and the islands in it, as 

 laid down by Flinders from his own and other surveys 

 available to him ; and his own work on the coast-line, and 

 his soundings, are distinguished from the work of others. 



