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sought the advice of the Council on matters connected with the 

 Catalogue, so far as Queensland is concerned, and the Council 

 has agreed to subscribe for a set, comprising 17 volumes, at a 

 cost of £17. Numerous applications have been received for the 

 (Queensland Volume of the Catalogue compiled by Mr. Shirley, 

 on behalf of the Society, and at the request of the Government ; 

 but the demands could not be met as all the copies have been 

 distributed. 



It will be remembered that Mr. O'Connor, in 1896, on 

 behalf of the Society, and with the aid of pecuniary assistance 

 from the Government, transferred a number of specimens of the 

 interesting fish Ceratodus from the Burnett and Mary rivers to 

 the Coomera, Condamine, and Brisbane waters, and to the 

 Enoggera Reservoir, in the hope that they would adapt them- 

 selves to those new localities. The following extract from a 

 recent report by Mr. O'Connor seems to show that the experiment 

 has been successful. 



. . . " Since I wrote you respecting the capture of a 

 Ceratodus in the Condamine I heard of another being taken 

 there, this specimen was only one foot and a half long, 

 consequently one of a new generation, none of the fish taken to 

 the Condamine measured less than two feet six inches in length. 

 I have also been informed by a correspondent at the 

 Coomera river that : ' The Ceratodi have increased in great 

 numbers, I have heard of several being caught and many have 

 been seen about fifteen inches long.' "... 



In accordance with the rules, all the officers retire, but 

 with the exception of the President, and Vice-President (neither 

 of whom, according to Rule 16, can hold the same office for two 

 years in succession), are eligible for re-election, 



JOHN THOMSON, M.B., 



J. F. BAILEY, L' resident. 



Hall. SecreUirij. 



Brisbane, 4th January, 1901.. 



