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and that the Certificate of Incorporation had been deposited in 

 the General Registry Office, as required by the Associations 

 Incorporation Act, 1890. It was further stated that the Rules 

 on parchment had been filed, and also a memorial of George 

 Gibbes Mayo's appointment to the office of sealholder, in his 

 capacity as Secretary. The Society has therefore now the right 

 -to use the word " Incorporated " as part of its title. 

 \' ^ W. HowcHiN, F.G.S., referring to bituminous substances being 

 "found from time to time on the southern shores of Australia, and 

 to the suggestion put forward by him as to its probable source 

 being Kergueien Island, read a cutting from a ne ^vspaper which 

 seemed to give some support to this idea. It stated that a bottle 

 thrown into the sea by Capt Ord in lat. 46° S., long. 92° 20' E., 

 which is between Kergueien Island and the mainland, had been 

 picked up on the coast of New Zealand, showing an easternly 

 drift. 



Papers. — "Notes on Loranthus exocarpi^^' by Chas. F. 

 JoHNCOCK ; " Description of New Species of Tertiary Corals," 

 Part YL, by John Dennant, F.G.S.; "Description of New 

 Australian J[:ysmatodoma,'" by Oswald Lower, F.E.S., Lond.; 

 ■" Notes on the Petrography of the Olary District," by W. G. 

 WOOLNOUGH, B.Sc, F.G.S. 



Annual Meeting, October 27, 1903. 



Prof. E. H. Rennie, D.Sc. (President), in the chair. 



Exhibits — W. J. Vandenbergh exhibited some interesting 

 photographs taken during his recent visit to the Northern Terri- 

 tory ; also several specimens of cotton and kapoc, and various 

 l^inds of arrowroots, as products of the district. J. G. O. Tepper, 

 F.L.S., shoved a peculiar cricket {Cylindrodes Camphelli) and a 

 ■case of Australian crickets. Edwin Ashby placed on exhibit a 

 skin of the Rifle bird (Ptilorhis paradisea) from Queensland. 



The annual report and balance-sheet were read and adopted. 



Election of Officers. — President, Joseph C. Yerco, M.D., 

 F.R.C.S.; Yice-Presidents, Prof. E. H. Rennie, M.A., D.Sc, 

 Rev. Thos. Blackburn. B.A.; Honorary Treasurer, Walter Rutt, 

 CE. Two members of Council to fill the places of those retiring 

 Walter Howchin, F.G.S. , and Edwin Ashby. 



The newly-elected President having taken the chair, Pro f . 

 Kennie, the retiring President, gave his address on " Th e 

 Fisheries of Australia." 



I Mr. Howchin moved that the thanks of the meeting be given 

 \jO Prof. Rennie for his exceedingly interesting and opportune 

 address, and that it be printed in the Transactions of the Society. 

 This motion having been seconded by the Rev. T. Blackburn, 

 JB.A., was 



