■88 ABSTRACT OF PROCEEIUNCJS. 



11th May, 1914. 



The Month!}' General Meeting was held at the Mxiseum 

 at 8 p.m., the President in the chair. 



Erhihit. 



A specimen of fl lytiof/ni/ijilir/ns Br/ij;/xli McCiilloch (gen. 

 n., sp. n.), a fish taken at Wineglass Bay, East Coast of 

 Tasmania, during a dredging trip of the Tasmanian Field 

 Naturalists" Club, was exhibited from the Tasmanian 

 Museum. 



Matter and Elcctriritn. 



Tlie I'emainder of the meeting was given to an account 

 by Dr. J. L. Glasson of "Modern Views of Electricity," 

 ilkistrated by slides and experiments. 



15th Ju.Nv:, 1914. 



The Monthly General Meeting was held at the Museum 

 at 8 p.m., the President in the chair. 



Ldiifl ('onncrtinns with Antarrtlcd. 



The business of the meeting wa.s a discussion of the sup 

 posed former land connections of Antarctica with Aus- 

 tralasia and South America. 



Professor Flynn -stated the evidence in favour of former 

 land connections afforded by the distribution of animals, 

 particularly of the poiyprotodont marsupials, iguanas, 

 ci-ustacca, snails, and land turtles. 



Dr. Noctling remarked that those who advocated a land 

 connection did not say at what period they supposed it 

 had existed. There might have been continuous land in, 

 say. Eocene times, when the fauna of the eai'th was quite 

 different from the present fauna; Imt there was little evi- 

 dence of a land connection in the more recent periods 

 during which the present fauna had appeared. 



Mr. Rodway""' referred to the distril>ution of the beeches, 

 of which allied species were found in Tasmania and Terra 

 del Fuego. It was not probable that these had been canned 

 from one country to another by sea-currents or migraioi-y 

 birds, and the botanist required a land connection to 

 explain their distribution. But the lx)tanist had no evi- 

 dence that such a connection must have been through 

 Antarctica. 



* A fuller sluteineiit of Mi. RcmI way's leiiiiiiks is printetl at pp. .MM. 



