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Abstract of Proceedings, 24th June, 1918. 



A Special Meeting of the Royal Society of Queensland 

 was held in the Geology Lecture Theatre, in the University ^ 

 on Monda}^, 24th June, at 8 p.m. 



Dr. A. B, Walkom, President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous meeting were read and 

 confirmed. 



Mr. S. B. Watkins, M.Sc, was elected an Ordinary 

 Member of the Society. 



The j)roposed alteration of Rule 12 was accepted by 

 the Society, this rule now reading, " Candidates for election 

 shall pay the entrance fee and subscription for the current 

 year (or in the case of a Member being elected after 30th 

 June, half year's subscription only), within one month after 

 being elected. 



Mr. C. T. White exhibited, (1) A collection of plants 

 representative of the Gayndah District, Burnett River, 

 made by him in May last year ; (2) Specimens of Fieldia 

 australis A. Cunn., and Drymophrla Moorei Baker, two 

 plants recorded from " the sources of the Logan River," 

 by Baron Mueller in the Victorian Naturalist for December, 

 1895, but which by an oversight had been omitted from 

 different works on the Queensland Flora. D. Moorei had been 

 collected by the exhibitor in the higher parts of the 

 Macpherson Range, {vide Bailey in Queensland Agric. 

 Gazette, vol. 28, p. 202), but F. australis seems not to have 

 been collected in Queensland since Taylor and Collins 

 gathered it 23 years ago. 



Dr. Shirley showed specimens of two plants of the 

 order Flacourtiaceae from Roberts Plateau, Streptothamnus 

 Moorei F.v.M., and S. Bechleri F.v.M., both of which are 

 new to the Queensland flora. These plants were deter- 

 mined by Mr. J. H. Maiden. 



Messrs. Longman and Bennett commented on the 

 exhibits. 



A paper by T. L. Bancroft, M.B., on " Some further 

 notes on the life history of Ceratodusforsteri," was communi- 

 cated by Dr. T. Harvey Johnston. Dr. Johnston and 



