IX. ABSTRACT OF rROCEEDTNOS. 



The President referred to the death of the late Governor 

 of Queensland, His Excellency Sir Hamilton Goold- Adams, 

 G.C.M.G.; C.B., etc., and the Secretary was instructed to 

 convey a message of condolence to Lady Goold-Adams. 

 The meeting expressed its sympathy by rising. 



The minutes of the previous monthly meeting were 

 read and confirmed. 



Messrs. H. Tryon, A. Cayzer, B.Sc, and L. E. Cooling 

 were elected to ordinary membership of the Society. 



Mr. 0. W. Tiegs, B.Sc, Walter and Ehza Hall Fellow 

 in Biology, was proposed for ordinary membership of the 

 Society. 



Mr. B. Dunstan exhibited a series of specimens, illus- 

 trating the occurrence of precious opal in the basaltic 

 country at Tintenbar, near Ballina, in New South Wales, 

 comprising (1) Tripolite, which forms the source of the 

 silica ; (2) scoriaceous' basalt containing amygdules of 

 preciou.s opal ; (3) precious opals weathered out of the basalt ; 

 (4) "shin-cracker " or common opal formed from tripolite 

 in situ ; and (5) opal decomposed or devitrified to a white, 

 earthy rock. References were made to the conditions 

 under which the opal was formed, the peculiarit'es of 

 the opal produced, and the prospects of ol)taining similar 

 opal on the Queensland side of the border. 



Dr. J. Shirley, F.M.S., exhibited a remarkable liand 

 of eggs, lately received at the Queensland Museum, from 

 Mr. Eric McConnel, of Mount Brisbane, of a vinaceous-pink 

 colour and shaped like a gnomon ; one arm 1300 mm. 

 by 130 mm., the short arm 440 mm. by 170 mm. The 

 eggs are in rows of 40 to 50 capsules, containing about 

 30 eggs each, and there are hundreds of rows. The band 

 was found at Southport, and ])elongs to an unknown 

 cephalojiod. 



From Mr. E. J. Banfield, of Dunk Island, were shown 

 two wood-boring mollusks — Martesia striata Lin., and a 

 Xylophaga, probably new. These had penetrated deeply 

 into the timber of a damaged jetty. The methods of 



