ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. Xlll. 



The President announced the death of Mr. P. W. Rygate. 



The President announced that a Popular Science Lecture 

 entitled "The Aborigines of Central Australia," would be 

 delivered by Captain S. A. White, on Tuesday, 7th June, 

 1921. 



The President, supported by Mr. J. H. Maiden and Mr. 

 J. Nangle, presented to Mr. R. T. Baker the Mueller 

 Memorial Medal which had been awarded by the Austral- 

 asian Association for the Advancement of Science, at the 

 Annual Congress held in Melbourne last January, for his 

 eminent services to Botany, particularly in regard to the 

 genus Eucalyptus. 



The following donations were laid upon the table: — 23 

 volumes, 274 parts and 6 reports. 



THE FOLLOWING PAPER WAS READ I 



"On the Occurrence of a New Phenol in the Essential 

 Oil of the 'Leptospermum,' " by A. R. Penfold, F.c.s. 

 Remarks were made by Mr. H. G. Smith. 



exhibits : 



1. Mr. E. G. Bishop exhibited a series of steel specimens 



showing the effect of heat treatment on case-hardened 

 mild steel, and pointed out the importance of the 

 proper heat treatment for case-hardened articles. 



2. Mr. J. H. Maiden exhibited two photographs taken by 



Mr. R. Stewart, of Tyrie Station, Dandaloo, in April 

 last, of (a) Richard Cunningham's tomb and its sur- 

 roundings, (b) the inscription on the slab. 



The following note was contributed: — 



Richard Cunningham was Superintendent of the Botanic 

 Gardens, and botanist to Major Mitchell's Expedition. He was 

 murdered by the blacks near the modern Dandaloo in April, 1835. 

 The facts have been stated by Mitchell, and as the inscription has 

 only once been published, viz., in the Public Service Journal of 



