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Letter received from the International Research 

 Council, enclosing Agenda of the Conferenec to be held in 

 Brussels on July 18, 1919 ; also letter from the Royal Society 

 of New South Wales re Conference to be held in Sydney on 

 21st inst. Resolved — "That our Hon. Fellows, Professor 

 David and R. Etheridge, jun., be asked to represent this 

 Society at the Sydney Conference, or, in case of their not 

 being able to do so, then our Hon. Fellows Charles Hedley 

 and Professor Wilson." 



Papers. — "A Contribution to the Study of Habron- 

 emiasis," by Lionel B. Bull, D.V.Sc. A paper on "The 

 Phaestos Disk : its Cypriote Origin," by Alan Rowe (com- 

 municated through the President), was laid on the table, and 

 its reading was postponed until the next meeting. 



Ordinary Meeting, September 12, 1919. 



The President (Sir Joseph Verco, M.D., F.R.C.S.) in 



the chair. 



Nominations. — Prof. T. Braileford Robertson and Alan 

 Rowe were nominated as Fellows. 



Exhibits. — Prof. Walter Howchin exhibited a tym- 

 panic (ear) bone of a whale obtained from the Abattoirs 

 bore, near Dry Creek, about 400 feet from the surface. The 

 specimen probably belongs to the genus Balaena, or the Right 

 Whales, as they are known by whalers, and most likely formed 

 part of an immature individual of Balaena australis, one of 

 the chief specific representatives of the Balaenidae in the 

 Southern Hemisphere. The bed from which it was obtained 

 is of Upper Pliocene Age. Remains of the Balaenidae are 

 very common in beds of similar age in England and on the 

 Continent of Europe. Fragments of another example were 

 also obtained from the same bore. Capt. S. A. White 

 showed remains of oranges from Fulham, near Adelaide, from 

 which the whole of the pulp and pith had been extracted 

 by black rats, leaving only the rind. Mr. A. M. Lea ex- 

 hibited a gigantic longicorn beetle (Batocera wallacei) from 

 New Guinea, measuring 18 inches across the extended 

 antennae. Mr. A. R. Riddle showed a glass-headed pin 

 in which the glass had assumed an amethystine tint from 

 exposure to X-rays. (Vide Miscellanea.) 



Papers. — "The Phaestos Disk: its Cypriote Origin," by 

 Alan Rowe (communicated by the President); "Australian 

 Coleoptera, Part I.," by Albert H. Elston, F.E.S.; "The 

 Petrology of the Granitic Mass of Cape Willoughby, Kangaroo 

 Island, Part I.," by C. E. Tilley, B.Sc. (communicated by 

 Prof. Walter Howchin); "Notes on some Miscellaneous 

 Coleoptera, with Descriptions of New Species, Part V.," by 



