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Abstract of Proceedings, 28th November, 1921. 



The Ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Society was held 

 in the Geology Lecture Theatre of the University at 8 p.m. 

 on IMonday, 28th November, 1921. 



The President, Mr. C. T. White, F.L.S., in the chair. 



The minutes of the previous monthly meeting were read 

 and confirmed. 



Dr. A. J. Sawyer was nominated for Ordinary Member- 

 ship. 



^Ir. J. II. Reid was elected as an ordinary member. 



Dr. J. Shirley, F.M.S., exhibited specimens of Arcidfe 

 from the following localities : — Area mosanibicana Bianconi, 

 Solomon Islands ; A. nigra Lamy, Moreton Bay, usually 

 reported as A. tenehrica; A. scaplm, Moreton Bay; A. 

 velJicata Reeve, Elliot River. All these shells formed part 

 of the collection of the late Dr. May, of Bundaberg, and were 

 determined by i\Ions. Lamy of the Museum of Natural 

 History, Paris. 



Mr. H. A. Longman, F.L.S., exhibited the type specimen 

 of Nyctimene tryoni, a new species of Megachiroptera, 

 secured by Mr. D. Lahey at Canungra, South Queensland, 

 and described in the Memoirs of the Queensland INIuseum, 

 vol. vii, part 3. The occurrence of this tubular-nosed bat 

 so far south of previous records for the genus was of special 

 interest. 



]Mr. C. T. AVhite, F.L.S., exhibited specimens of 

 Hcdypnois polymorphs Linn., a Mediterranean plant found 

 as a naturalised alien near Brisbane by Mr. F. F. Coleman ; 

 Cidioriurn, intyhus Linn., the Chicory, and Carthamus 

 lanatus Linn., the Saffron Thistle, both naturalised in 

 Queensland for some years past but only now showing a 

 tendency to become bad weeds; and Lamium amplexicaule 

 Linn.. Henbit or Dead Nettle, with which feeding experi- 

 ments have recently been conducted in New South Wales 

 showing the plant to be capable of causing the disease 

 popularly known in Australia as "Staggers" or "Shivers." 

 As yet the last-mentioned example is not a very common 

 weed in Queensland. 



Professor T. Harvey Johnston, ]\I.A., D.Sc, read a paper 

 by himself and Miss ]\I. J. Bancroft, B.Sc, entitled "The 

 Freshwater Fish Epidemics in Queensland Rivers." Dr. 

 Shirley, Hon. A. J. Thynne, and Messrs. Longman, Syiow, 

 and Alexander discussed the paper. 



