XX. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



Remarks were made by Messrs. Hamlet and Darnell- 

 Smith, and by the Rev. Dr. Roseby. 



exhibits : 

 Marble from near Marulan, by Mr. C. A. Sussmilch, f.g.s. 



ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, OCTOBER 1st 1913. 



The three hundred and sixty-first (361st) General Monthly 

 Meeting of the Royal Society of New South Wales was 

 held at the Society's House, 5 Elizabeth-street North, at 

 8 p.m. 



Mr. H. G. Smith, President, in the Chair. 



Forty-two members and two visitors were present. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and 

 confirmed. 



The certificates of two candidates for admission as 

 ordinary members were read for the first time. 



The President made the following announcements: — 



1. That a Popular Science Lecture entitled "Irrigation 

 in India and in Egypt," by Prof. W. H. Warren, ll.d.> 

 would be delivered in the Society's Hall, on October 16th, 

 1913. 



2. That donations consisting of 5 volumes, 129 parts, 7 

 reports and 9 maps, were laid upon the table. 



the following papers were read: 

 1. " The Extraction of Radium from the Olary Ores," by 

 S. Radcliff. 

 In the year 1906, Mr. W. S. Chapman, Government 

 Assayer of South Australia discovered that the yellow 

 substance encrusting a mineral sample sent in for gold 

 assay was carnotite, a rare uranium mineral which had 

 previously only been found in Colorado, U.S.A. The dis- 

 covery was considered of such importance that Mr. H. Y.L. 



