ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. XX1. 
The certificate of one candidate for admission as an 
ordinary member was read for the first time. 
A letter was read from Mrs. C. O. Hamblin, expressing 
thanks for the Society’s sympathy in her recent bereave- 
ment. 
The following donations were laid upon the table :—8 
volumes, 116 parts and 4 reports. 
1. 
THE FOLLOWING PAPERS WERE READ: 
*‘Notes on Hornblende and Bytownite from Hypersthene 
’ Gabbro, Black Buff, near Broken Hill,’ by Miss Ida A. 
Brown, B.Se., (communicated by W. R. Browne, D.Sc.). 
“The Heonomic Utilisation of the Residues from the 
Steam Rectification of the Hssential Oil of Hucalyptus 
cneorifolia and the Germicidal Values of the Pure 
‘Active’ Constituents,’’ by A. R. Penfold, F.c.s., and 
R. Grant, F.c.s. Remarks were made by Mr. R. W. 
Challinor. 
“The Essential Oil of Hriostemon Crowei (Crowea 
saligna) and the presence of a new Phenol Hther,’’ by 
A. R. Penfold, F.c.s., and F. R. Morrison.. 
“The Resinous Hxudation of Rosewood,’”’ by M. B. 
Welch, B.Sc. A.I.CcC. Remarks were made by Messrs. 
J. H. Maiden and R. T. Baker. 
. “A Method of Identification of some Hardwoods,” by 
M. B. Welch, B.Se., A.1.C. 
. “Notes on the Occurrence of Gastrioceras, at the Irwin 
River Coal-Field, W.A., and a comparison with the 
so-called Paralegoceras from Letti, Dutch Kast Indies,”’ 
by W.S. Dun, and Sir Edgeworth David, K.B.E., D.s.0., 
C.M.G., D.Sc., F.R.S. 
. “‘The Glucoside occurring in the timber of the ‘* Red 
Ash” Alphitonia excelsa, Reiss,’’ by H.G. Smith, F.c.s. 
and John Read, M.a, Ph.D., B.Se. 
