ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 1X 
ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, 30TH APRIL, 1923. 
The Ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Society was 
held in the Geology Lecture Theatre of the University at 
8 p.m. on Monday, 30th April, 1923, 
The President, Dr. E. O. Marks, M.D., B.A., B.E., in 
the chair. 
The minutes of the previous Monthly Meeting were 
read and confirmed. 
Drs. J. Lockhart Gibson, T. W. H. Mathewson, and 
E. N. Merrington, Rev. C. H. Massey, and Mrs. E. Lumley 
Hill were nominated for ordinary membership. 
Archbishop Duhig, Professor E. J. Goddard, B.A.., 
D.Se., Professor J, P. Lowson, M.A., M.D., G, P. Dixon, 
CB MB. Ch. MM J. 6. Hamline M.Sc. Mrs. Hambhin, 
M.A., Miss Barker, B.A., were elected as Ordinary Members, 
and J. H. Simmonds, B.Sc., and F. G. Holdaway, B.Sc., 
were elected as Associates. 
In making an exhibit of specimens, drawings, and 
slides of Queensland fossil insects, Mr. B. Dunstan gave a 
general account of the insect-bearing beds of Denmark Hill, 
Ipswich District. These beds were discovered by Mr. J. H. 
Simmonds when looking for fossil plants. Many years 
afterwards they were carefully investigated by officers of 
the Queensland Geological Survey. Illustrations of very 
old types of the dragon-fly, mantis, locust, lacewing, cock- 
roach, bug, jassid, and beetle were screened. One slide 
showed a restoration of Ipsvicia Jonesi, a giant Jassid, 
named after the Minister for Mines. This restoration was 
made possible by the recent discovery of an almost perfect 
specimen. The insect quarry at Ipswich has yielded about 
120 new species of fossil insects, and no doubt others will 
be unearthed as the investigation proceeds. 
Mr. W. H. Bryan, M.Se., communicated a paper by 
Dre RJ, Tillyard, M:A., D:Se., FeBasy entitled “On <a 
Tertiary Fossil Insect Wing from Queensland.’’ The paper 
describes a new insect discovered by Mr. Bryan in the 
Tertiary beds at Redbank Plains, near Goodna. One other 
fossil insect wing (EHuporismites balli) has been found in 
the same deposits, and deseribed by Dr. Tillyard, while 
numerous fossil fish and dicotyledonous plants have been 
found on the same horizon. The new insect wing has been 
