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his investigation of the new midriatic alkaloid, Solandrine, 

 yielded by Solandra Icevis, in so far as the material available has 

 allowed him to do so. The results of this investigation will befound 

 in the last Part of the Proceedings. In addition Dr. Petrie has 

 had in hand two promising subjects for investigation, namely, 

 the distribution of nitrogen in seeds, and the nature of the non- 

 protein substances which appear to be mainly the products of 

 decomposition of the proteins; and the nature of certain products 

 obtainable from the Australian plant Ochrosia. Of course, in 

 quantity of output, the Biochemist cannot hope to rival the 

 geologist. I may add that the Council has reappointed Dr. 

 Petrie to a Fellowship. 



I have much pleasure in formally announcing to the Society 

 the name of the Third Linnean Macleay Fellow, Mr. E. J. 

 Goddard, B. A., B.Sc, whose appointment will date from the 1st 

 proximo. Mr. Goddard took his B.Sc. degree in 1905, obtaining 

 Professor David's Prize for Physiography in his first year, and 

 Honours in both Biology, and Geology and Palaeontology in his 

 second and third years. Since 1904 he has filled the post of 

 Junior Demonstrator in Biology at the University of Sydney, 

 and for a time that of Acting Senior Demonstrator. Mr. 

 Goddard has contributed a paper on " Foraminiferal Sand 

 -dredged twenty-two miles east of Sydney at a depth of eighty 

 fathoms " to the Records of the Australian Museum ( Vol.vi.pp. 

 305-311, 1907); and a paper entitled " Contributions to a Know- 

 ledge of Australian Foraminifera," written in collaboration with 

 Mr. H. I. Jensen, B.Sc, will be found in last year's Proceedings 

 (1907, p. 291). He has been investigating Australian freshwater 

 leeches (Rhynchob Jell Ida), and will shortly communicate his 

 results to the Society. Mr. Goddard will take up branch No. 5, 

 General Biology, especially devoting himself to the study of the 

 Freshwater Annulata of Australia. Trout are being introduced 

 into our creeks and rivers in such a wholesale manner, that the 

 welfare of the freshwater fauna of New South Wales and other 

 States is being threatened very seriously, before any satisfactory 

 systematic attempts have been made to estimate its character 



