XVili. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 
The following gentleman was duly elected an ordinary 
member of the Society:— 
Dr. A. KH. FINcKH, Medical Practitioner, 227 Macquarie- 
street. 
A communication was read from Dr. C. MACLAURIN 
expressing his appreciation of the message of sympathy 
which had been conveyed to him at the time of the death 
of his father, Sir NORMAND MACLAURIN. 
Donations consisting of 317 parts, 1 volume, 15 reports 
and 1 catalogue were laid upon the table. 
THE FOLLOWING PAPERS WERE READ: 
1. “Description of a Limestone of Lower Miocene Age from 
Bootless Inlet, Papua,’’ by FREDERICK CHAPMAN, A.L.S., 
F.R.M.S. (Communicated by Mr. W. S. Dun.) 
Remarks were made by Professor DAVID. 
2. ““Note on the Catalase Reaction of Milk,” by H. B. 
TAYLOR, B.Sc. (Communicated by Prof. C. E. FawsitTtT). 
Remarks were made by Professor Faws!tr and Professor 
CHAPMAN. 
EXHIBITS: 
1. Glaciated boulders from a newly discovered area of 
the Permo-Carboniferous Lochinvar Glacial beds, and also 
from a newly discovered glacial horizon from what appear 
to be the topmost beds of the Rhacopteris Series of the 
Lower Carboniferous beds at Seaham and Paterson in the 
Lower Hunter area, by Professor T. W. EDGEWORTH DAVID, 
F.R.S., and Mr. C. A. SUSSMILCH. 
2. Mr. J. H. MAIDEN, F.L.S., exhibited living plants of :— 
(i.) Myremecodia Muelleri, Beccari, Papua. (ii.) Hydno- 
phylum formicaruim, Jack, var. dubium, Beccari, Malacca; 
both possess opinous tubers of great size, which. are gal- 
leried by ants. (iii.) Homalomena Wallisii, Regel, Aracece 
(Homalaomenince) from Colombia. (iv.) Calmus ciliaris, 
