ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. xV 
The President, Dr. E. O. Marks, B.A., B.E., M.D., in 
the chair. 
The minutes of the previous monthly mecting were 
read and confirmed. 
Dr. Cumbrae-Stewart, Mr. T. W. Heney, and Professor 
T. Parnell, M.A., were unanimously elected as ordinary 
members. 
Mr. W. B. Alexander, M.A., exhibited pellets produced 
by the Boobook Owl, ‘‘Laughing Jackass,’’ Wedge-tailed 
Eagle, and Australian Crow coilected by him in the Rock- 
hampton district. He stated that though it had long been 
known that owls ejected from the mouth pellets of bones 
and fur, it had only recently been discovered that some 
Australian Kingfishers had a similar habit, and it had not 
hitherto been known that eagles and crows produced 
pellets. Those of the crow exhibited were of special 
interest because they contained numerous seeds of prickly- 
pear, thus indicating conclusively that these birds spread 
that plant. 
Professor E. J. Goddard, B.A., D.Sc., exhibited speci- 
mens of Peripatus capensis, which, he explained, was the 
classic subject worked upon by Professor Sedgwick. It is 
the finest species of the genus and is distributed in the 
West Indies, Brazil, South Africa, India, East Indies, 
Australia, and New Zealand. Like so many other forms 
of the Southern hemisphere it is a primitive type, and its 
distribution has been much abused by zoogeographers. 
The President exhibited specimens of hollow  eal- 
careous nodules containing drusy cavities, which were 
found in sandstone near Ipswich, and a cylindrical stone 
implement of unusual shape, which had been ploughed up 
near Taroom, and sent in by Mr. A. H. Blackman. This 
would be placed in the Queensland Museum. 
Mr. W. H. Bryan, M.Sec., communicated a paper 
entitled, ‘‘The Queensland Inocerami, collected by Lum- 
holz in 1881,’’ by F. W. Whitehouse, B.Sc., Foundation 
Travelling Scholar, Department of Geology, University of 
Queensland. In the paper the author describes the results 
of his re-examination of the Inocerami which were collected 
by Lumholz from Minnie Downs, near Tambo, in 1881, 
and subsequently deposited in the University of Kristiania. 
