ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. IX. 



The following gentlemen were duly elected as ordinary 

 members of the Society: — 



L. A. Curtis, l.s., Union-street, Mosman. 



R. H. Grieve, b.a., Llandaff-street, Waverley. 



E. MacKinnon, b.Sc, Bureau of Microbiology, Sydney. 



B. J. Smart, b.Sc., Public Works Office, Lithgow. 



The President made the following announcements : — 



1. That the Popular Science Lecture on " Shifts for a 

 living in the Plant World," by Mr. G. P. Darnell-Smith, 

 b.Sc, would be delivered in the Society's House on July 

 18th, 1912. 



2. That an exhibition of the Federal Capital designs 

 would be held in Sydney, and he invited members to inspect 

 them. 



THE FOLLOWING PAPERS WERE READ! 



1. "On a new Prostanthera and its Essential Oil," by 



R. T. Baker, f.l.s., and H. G. Smith, f.c.s. 



The President, and Mr. Maiden took part in the discus- 

 sion. 



2. "The Differential Phenomenaof the Prospect Intrusion," 



by H. Stanley Jevons, m.a., b.Sc, H. I. Jensen, d.Sc, 

 and C. A. Sussmilch, f.g.s. 



Remarks were made by Mr. E. C. Andrews and the 



President, and the latter took the opportunity of offering 



the congratulations of the Society to Dr. Jensen on his 



appointment as Government Geologist of the Northern 



Territory. 



exhibits : 



Mr. Maiden exhibited some specimens to illustrate a 

 paper read by Mr. Edward Palmer (afterwards M.L.A. 

 of Queensland), on plants used for various purposes by the 

 aborigines of the Gulf of Carpentaria, before this Society 

 on 1st August, 1883. The specimens had been presented 

 to the National Herbarium, Sydney, by Mr. Palmer's 

 widow. 



