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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 



Mr. Henry Deane, M.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The President reminded Candidates for Fellowships that 

 Monday, 30th inst., was the last day for sending in applications. 



Mr. Theodore T. Flynn, B.Sc, Technical College, West 

 Maitland, was elected an Ordinary Member of the Society. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting, amounting to 17 Vols, 49 Parts or Nos., 2 

 Bulletins, 1 Report, 1 Map, and 21 Pamphlets, received from 

 48 Societies and two Individuals, &c, were laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Dr. Chapman, who had recently returned from a visit to West 

 Australia, by request tendered to the Society very cordial greetings 

 from the West Australian Natural History Society, at Perth. 



Mr. D. G. Stead recorded the occurrence in the waters of New 

 South Wales, of the great swordfish, Xiphias gladius Linn., an 

 example of which, measuring 9 feet, 4 inches, in length had been 

 captured two days previously at Kiama. This marks the first 

 record of this species in these waters. The specimen captured — 

 of which the sword measured 3 feet — was in pursuit of large 

 jewfish (Sciaena antarctica Castelnau) at the time. Mr. Stead 

 also exhibited two remarkable photographs of a huge sunfish, 

 Mola mola (Linn.), recently brought in to Sydney on one of the 

 propellers of the steamship " Fiona." This sunfish was the largest 

 on record, measuring 10 feet 2 inches in length, 6 feet deep, and 

 2 feet thick. A living example of the beautiful osphromenid 

 fish, Osphromenus trichopterus (Pallas) — a species of Gourami, of 

 which a large number had recently been privately introduced to 

 the State — was also exhibited. 



Mr. Tillyard exhibited the cast skin of a dragonfly, Hemicordulia 

 australice, on the back of which was a second cast skin of the 

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