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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 



November 27th, 1912. 



Mr. AV. W. Froggatt, F.L.8., President, in the Cliair. 



Mr. Fhancis Edward Burbury, Launceston, Tas.; Miss Myall 

 Cadell, Beecroft, Sydney; and Mr. A. A. Girault, Nelson 

 (Cairns), N.Q., were elected Ordinary Members of the Society. 



The President reminded Candidates for Fellowships, that Sat- 

 urday, 30th inst., was the last day for sending in applications. 



A communication from tlie Secretaries of Section D(Biology), 

 Melbourne Meeting of the Australasian Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, January, 1913, asking intending con- 

 tributors of papers to communicate the titles as soon as con- 

 venient, and also to forward the papers, with abstracts, not later 

 than one week before the meeting, was read from the Chair. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting (30th October, 1912), amounting to 16 Vols., 74 

 Parts orNos., 15 Bulletins, and II Pamphlets, received from 54 

 Societies and two Individuals, were laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. A. A. Hamilton showed specimens of four species of 

 plants from the National Herbarium, Sydney, of which two, it is 

 believed, are new for Australia, and two new for New South 

 Wales, namely : Atriplex hastata Linn., Cook's River (A. A. 

 Hamilton; October, 1912); new for Australia. — Senecio crassi- 

 florus DC., Waratah railway embankment(J. Gregson; March, 

 1910); The Dyke, Newcastle (Mrs. Hamilton; October, 1912); 

 new for Australia. — Galenia secunda Sond., Geelong Coast, Vic- 

 toria(Chas. Walters; January, 1902); recorded from Victoria in 

 Ewart's Census of Weeds, etc., p.l44; West Maitland (J. C. 

 Burges; January, 1911); Stockton Beach(Mrs. Hamilton; October, 

 1912); new for New South Wales. — Malva niccensis All., Govern- 



