5X1V. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



Letters were read from Messrs. K. T. Baker and H. G. Smith, returning 

 thanks for cong-ratulations ; and from Mr. J. H. Maiden returning thanks for 

 Members' appreciation of his services as a member of the Council. Mr. Baker, 

 who was present, also expressed his appreciation of Members' congi-atulations. 



Professor Haswell forwarded a report of the Council of the Ray Society in 

 which an appeal is made for new subscribers to enable the Society to continue 

 work on its present scale. The Secretary will be pleased to furnish any further 

 information available to intending subscribers. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous Monthly Meeting 

 (31st May, 1922), amounting to 11 Vols., 64 Parts or Nos., 10 Bulletins, 5 

 Reports and 4 Pamphlets, etc., received from 47 Societies and Institutions and 

 2 private donors were laid upon the table. 



PAPERS READ. 



1. The Loranthaceae of Australia, Part ii. By W. F. Blakely. 



2. Some New Permian Insects from Belmont. N.S.W,., in the Collection of .Mr. 

 John Mitchell. By R. J. Tillyard, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



3. A new Gasteropod (fam. Euomphalidae) from the Lower Marine Series of 

 New South Wales. By John Mitchell. 



4. Notes on Nematodes of the genus Physaloptera. Part iii. The Physaloptera 

 of Australian Lizards. By Vera Irwin-Smith, B.Sc, F.L.S. , Linnean Maeleay 

 Fellow of the Society in Zoology. 



5. Studies in Symbiosis, i. The Myeorhiza of Dipodium punctatum R.Br. By 

 J. McLuckie, M.A., D.Sc. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Fletcher showed a complete plant, 3i inches high, a dwarf form of 

 Darwinia taxifolia, in flower, from Lane Cove, by way of contrast to some flower- 

 ing specimens from a plant 8 feet high, exhibited, some years ago, by Mr. Cheel 

 from the Hawkesbury River. 



Mr. A. F. Basset Hull gave a short account of his recent expedition to the 

 Archipelago of the Recherche, Western Australia, and exhibited a collection of 

 Chitons (Polyplaeophora) taken along the coast of the Great Australian Bight 

 and' on the Islands; and a Sieries of land shells {Bothiembryon spp.) illustrating 

 the local variation from the mainland type B. inflatiui, the shells from each 

 island visited being distingniishable, in fact some have been separately named 

 by malaeologists. Reference was also made to the wanton destruction of seals 

 on the islands of the Archipelago 



Mr. E. Le G. Troughton exhibited (by permission of the Director of the 

 Australian Museum) two skins of a rare native rat, Rattus mondraineus (des- 

 cribed in 1921 by Mr. Oldfield Thomas from two specimens), secured by the 

 recent expedition to the Recherche Archipelago; also two skulls of the White- 

 necked Hair Seal, Eumetopias albicollis, from the same source; one- specimen 

 displayed an irregularity in dentition, not infrequent in seals, due to the failure 

 of the sixth molar to develop. 



Mr. W. F. Blakely submitted the following examples of homoplasy (referred 

 to in These Proc, slvii., 1922, pp. 17, 18) : 1. Lyonsia euealyptifoUa and 

 Eucalyptus Stuartiana; 2. Exocarpus apHiylla and Acacia exocarpioides; 3. Noto- 

 thixos cornif alius and Exocarpus latif alius; 4. Stepkania hernandifolim and Macar- 

 anga Tanarius; 5. Epacris rigida and Leptospermttm epacridioides ; 6. Dodonaea 



