XX. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



Owing to the lateness of the hour the reading of the 

 paper " Notes on Flour-Strength," byF. B. Guthrie, f.i.c., 

 f.c.s., and GL W. Norris was postponed to the next meeting. 



exhibits. 



1. Mr. J. A. Schofield exhibited a new automatic stop- 

 funnel for filling bottles with liquids, the flow automatically 

 ceasing as soon as the bottle is full. The funnel belongs 

 to Mr. Sibley (of Mauri Bros, and Thomson). 



2. Mr. W. J. Olunies Ross exhibited specimens to illus- 

 trate the attempt to grow pearls artificially within the 

 oyster. From Thursday Island. 



3. Mr. T. H. Johnston of the Bureau of Microbiology, 

 exhibited slides of the Irish Blight fungus, Phytophthora 

 infestans from potatoes from Tasmania and Richmond 

 River, N. S. Wales. He also exibited a series of parasites 

 including Paramphistomum cervi in the stomach of an ox 

 (N.S.W.); hydatids, (Echinococcus polymorphic) in the rib 

 of an ox (N.S.W.) and in the heart muscles of a pig (N.S.W.); 

 Notoedres alepis (Sarcoptes muris) on the ears and tail of 

 Mus decumanus (N.S.W.), a parasite which Dr. Cleland 

 had found on Mus alexandrinus in West Australia — this 

 itch mite or mange mite being allied to Sarcoptes scabiei 

 from man, S. minor (S. cati) of the cat, S. canis of the dog, 

 all of which occur, though rarely, in our State ; Laelaps 

 agilis ? from Mus rattus, M. alexandrinus, M. decumanus; 

 and Ixodes sp. from Mus decumanus, all these acarids being 

 obtained in Sydney. He also reported the occurrence in 

 West Australia of the following entozoa, Taenia saginata, 

 Ascaris lumbricoides and Oxyuris vermicularis, all of these 

 were previously unrecorded from that State, these records 

 being based on reports collected by Dr. Cleland whilst 

 attached to the Board of Health, Perth, W.A. 



Abstract of lecture on "Torres Straits," by 0. Hedley, 

 f.l.s., delivered 16th September, 1909. The lecturer 



