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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26th, 1906. 



The Ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Society was held in 

 the Linnean Hall, Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on Wednesday 

 evening, September 26th, 1906. 



Mr. Thomas Steel, F.C.S., E.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



' Miss Margaret Flockton, Gladesville, was elected an Associate 

 Member; and Dr. R. J. Millard, Board of Health, Sydney, and 

 Mr. Leonard Rodway, Hobart, were elected Ordinary Members. 



The President announced that the Council had elected Mr. R. 

 H. Cambage and Professor J. T. Wilson, M.B., Ch.M., to fill two 

 extraordinary vacancies in the Council caused by the decease of 

 the Hon. Dr. Norton, and Dr. J. P. Hill's removal to London. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting, amounting to 5 Vols, 60 Parts or Nos., 15 

 Bulletins, 3 Reports, 19 Pamphlets, and 2 Maps, received from 

 39 Societies, &c, and 5 Individuals, were laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



The President exhibited a specimen of the volcanic dust from 

 Mount Vesuvius which fell over Naples during the recent erup- 

 tions, also of volcanic ash from Pompeii, and of the dust from 

 the eruption of Mount Pelee, Martinique, in 1902. 



The President mentioned that there is at present on view in 

 the bedstead department of Messrs. Anthony Hordern & Sons, 

 a most interesting and instructive working model showing the 

 great ocean currents of the world. All the principal land masses 



