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Nominations. — Miss E. D. Nobes, B.Sc. ; Herbert M. 

 Hale; and Albert Geo. Charles, as Fellows. 



The President reported that at the invitation of the 

 Queensland Branch of the Koyal Geographical Society the 

 Council had appointed Prof. F. Wood Jones to represent 

 them upon a joint committee to consider the sug^grested ex- 

 ploration of the Great Barrier Reef, and Prof. Sir Douglas 

 Mawson to represent the Society on the Council of the Aus- 

 tralasian Association for the Advancement of Science at its 

 meeting in Wellington, N.Z. Also that a letter had been 

 received from Queensland asking for co-operation in urging 

 the Government to take steps to prevent the extinction of 

 the Ceratodus, and that the Council had endorsed the sug- 

 gested action. 



Papers. — "Some New Records of Fungi from South 

 Australia, Part II., together with a description of a New 

 Species of Piiccinia," by Prof. T. G. Osborn, D.Sc, and 

 Geoffrey Samuel, B.Sc. ; "An Investigation of the Essential 

 Oil obtained from Eucalyptus cneori folia, DC," by Philip 

 A. Berry, B.Sc. (communicated by Prof. E. C. Rennie, 

 D.Sc); "The Flora and Fauna of Nuyt's Archipelago and 

 the Investigator Group, Part 2 — The Monodelphian 

 Mammals," by Prof. F. Wood Jones, M.R.C.S., D.Sc, 

 etc.; "The Flora and Fauna of Nuyt's Archipelago and 

 the Investigator Group, Part 3 — A Sketch of the Ecology of 

 Franklin Island," by Prof. T. G. B. Osborn, D.Sc 



Ordinary Meeting, September 14, 1922. 



The President (R. S. Rogers, M.A., M.D.) in the chair. 



Elections. — Miss E. D. Nobes, B.Sc; H. M. Hale; 

 and A. G. Charles, as Fellows. 



Papers. — "On the Striation of Voluntary Muscle Fibres 

 in Double Spirals," by O. W. Tiegs, M.Sc ; "The Flora 

 and Fauna of Nuyt's Archipelago and the Investigator 

 Group, Part 4 — Coleoptera," by Arthur M. Lea, F.E.S. ; 

 "Australian Lepidoptera of the Tribe Geomefrites," by A. 

 Jefferis Turner, M.D., F.E.S. ; ''Australian Coleoptera, 

 Part III., by Albert H. Elston, F.E.S.; "Cylindro- 

 Conical Stones from the Darling River and Cooper Creek," 

 by R. H. Pulleine, M.B. 



Exhibits. — Sir Joseph Verco showed some shells (vide 

 Miscellanea) ; also 27 almonds in their shells taken from the 

 crop of a game rooster which was found in convulsions. The 

 crop was opened by the owner, a gardener, the almonds 

 removed, and the wound sewn up, the fowl being found quite 

 lively the next day. Mr. A. E. Edquist showed two samples 

 of Loranfhus exocarpus, one grown on an orange tree and one 



