Xiv, ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 
and Status,’’ would be delivered by Professor T. Griffith 
Taylor, D.Sc.,on Thursday, 20th July, 1922. 
The following donations were laid upon the table:—76 
parts and 6 volumes. 
THE FOLLOWING PAPERS WERE READ: 
1. “‘ Observations respecting some Essential Oils from 
Leptospermum Liversidgei,’’ by A. R. Penfold, F.c.s. 
Remarks were made by Messrs. A. A. Hamilton, E. 
Cheel, M. B. Welch, and H. G. Smith. 
2. ‘* Preliminary Note on a new Stearoptene (probably a 
phenol ether) occurring in some Essential Oils of the | 
Myrtacee,”’ by A.R. Penfold, F.c.s. and F. R. Morrison. 
3. ‘““A Chemical and Bacteriological Study of a typical 
wheat soil of New South Wales,”’ by J. K. Taylor, B.sc. 
(Agr.), which in his absence was read by Mr. G. 
Wright. | 
The President, Mr. C. A. Sussmilch, delivered an inter- 
esting lecturette on “Scientific problems of the Pacific, 
Part I—Geography.”’ This was the first of a series of 
lecturettes to be delivered by various members on subjects 
connected with the Pacific, and which have been inaugur- 
ated in view of the fact that it has been decided to hold 
the Pan-Pacific Science Congress in Australia in 1923. 
AUGUST 2np, 1922. 
The four hundred and thirty-first General Monthly 
Meeting was held at the Society’s House, 5 Hlizabeth — 
Street, at 8 p.m. 
Mr. OC. A. Sussmilch, President, in the Chair. 
Forty-three members were present. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and 
confirmed. 
