2D, QUEENSLAND FOSSIL FLORAS 
them, W. H. Bryan, M.Se., having gained the Military 
Cross. We extend our hearty congratulations to him on 
this award. 
Death has passed the Society by very lightly during 
the past year, and we have to record the loss of only one 
member, Percy Leonard Weston, by whose death in 
August, 1918, at the age of 38 years, a brilliant career was 
cut short. Mr. Weston obtained the degrees of B.Sc. 
and B.E. of the Svdney University in 1901 and 1904 
respectively, gaining first-class honours with each degree, 
and in 1905 he was awarded the P.N. Russell gold medal 
for post-graduate engineering research, his thesis being 
‘The mechanical production of ruled surfaces.” Coming 
to Queensland in 1906, he entered into a consulting practice 
in partnership with Mr. A. C. F. Webb, in Brisbane, and 
during the succeeding eight years he designed and super- 
vised the installation of numerous electric light and power 
plants in Southern Queensland. In 1914, he was appointed 
Lecturer in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in the 
University of Queensland, which position he held at the 
time of his death. In 1917, he invented a steel belt drive 
on a magnetic pulley, and this invention has already been 
favourably commented on in Britain. He was closely 
associated for a number of years both with this Society 
and with the Queensland Institute of Engineers. He was 
a member of the Council of the former from 1910 to 1914, 
being Vice-President in 1911, and President in 1912, and 
has also occupied the position of President of the Queensland 
Institute of Engineers. His only contribution to our 
Proceedings was his presidential address, entitled ‘* The 
internal combustion engine as a factor in national progress.” 
Those of us who were privileged to know him well mourn 
the loss of a sincere friend, whose innate cheerfulness and 
readiness to help made him so many friends. 
QUEENSLAND FOSSIL FLORAS. 
For the scientific portion of my address I propose to 
give a short account of the fossil floras found in the stra- 
tified rocks in Queensland, with the object of making a 
contribution to the study of the distribution of floras 
during past geological periods. 
