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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28th, 1906. 



The concluding Ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Session was 

 held in the Linnean Hall, Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on Wed- 

 nesday evening, November 28th, 1906. 



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



Mr. Carl F. Laskron, Technological Museum, Sydney, was 

 elected an Ordinary Member of the Society. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting, amounting to 20 Vols., 71 Parts or Nos., 41 

 Bulletins, 2 Reports, and 45 Pamphlets, received from 47 Societies, 

 &c, and 1 Individual, were laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. D. G. Stead stated that during the month a magnificent 

 adult example of the " Government Bream," G enyor oge sebce (Cuv 

 & Val.) had been forwarded to Sydney from Coff's Harbour, thus 

 making a second record of the occurrence of this handsome 

 northern species in New South Wales waters. Mr. Stead also 

 exhibited a specimen of the rare Syngnathid Pipefish, Syngnathus 

 altirostris Ogilby, captured in the estnary of the Bellinger River 

 by Mr. C. Stace; and a young example (the short-beaked form), 

 measuring 170 mm., of the Skipper Garfish, Scombresox forsteri 

 Cuv. li; Val.; at the same time stating that, about the middle of 

 the month, these Scombresocids were present in the waters of 

 Port Jackson in immense numbers. 



Dr. J. M Petrie announced that he had identified a new 

 midriatic alkaloid from the leaves of Solandra Icevis Hook., ar 

 Tropical American Solanaceous plant. He had succeeded in 

 hydrolysing it into tropine and atropic acid, thereby proving it, 



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