PROCEEDINGS. 219 
WEDNESDAY, 2 AUGUST, 1888. 
Hon. Professor Smiru, C.M.G., President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The ee. gentlemen were duly elected ordinary members 
of the S 
Fi Oscar, Sydney. 
Smith, Robt. Burdett, M.L.A., Sydney. 
Styles, George Mildinhall, Sydney. 
The certificates of five new members were read for the second 
time, and of two for the first time. 
Sixty-seven donations were laid upon the table. 
A paper by Mr. Epwarp Patmer (M.L.A., Queensland) was 
read, “On Plants used by the Natives of North Qu eensland, 
Flinders and Mitchell Rivers, for food, medicine, &c., &c. 
A discussion followed, in which the following gentlemen took 
viz. :—Messrs. W. A. Dixon, J. F. Mann, Dr. Rennie, T. W. 
J. Henry, and the Chairman. 
was announced that Mr. Trevor Jones’s paper “On the 
dation of Sewers and Dwellings,” which was to have been 
tead before the Society, had, on the recommendation of the Council, 
been submitted to the Board of Health 
Mr. J. Trevor Jones then exhibited and explained the 
Macgreg gor soy or Mining Indicator,—an instrument for deter- 
g, by. means of a er floating in gelatine, the devia- 
tion in Petsana drill bor 
About thirty members were present. 
WEDNESDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER, 1883. 
Cartes Moors, F.L.S., V.-P., in the Chair. 
: The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
ee eres gentlemen were duly elected ordinary members of 
Blaxland, Herbert, M.R.C.S.E., L.R.C.P, Lond., Callen Park 
um. 
‘Little William, L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., Edinburgh., B 
_ Vause, Arthur John, M.B., O.M., Edinburgh, Cook's River. 
Warren, W. H. .. C.E., The University, Sydney. 
rile ogee Sydney. 
The certificates of two new candidates were read for the second 
tine and of one mart the first time 
