ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



A lecturette (with lantern slides) on "A recent visit to 

 New Guinea," by J. E. Oarne, f.g.s., was then given. 



By invitation of the President, Professor J. MacMillan 

 Brown, of Ohristchurch, New Zealand, who had travelled 

 much in the Malay Archipelago and New Guinea, addressed 

 the meeting on the ethnology of the natives of the islands. 



Votes of thanks to Mr. Oarne and Professor Brown 

 were cordially tendered. 



Mr. R. H. Mathews, l.s., then exhibited the method of 

 lighting a fire by flint and steel. In the box he used the 

 fungus of a species of Polyporus as tinder, as bushmen 

 used to do, and also Stringybark for the fire. 



Mr. W. M. Hamlet also brought a tinder box and made 

 a demonstration to supplement that of Mr. Mathews. 



Mr. Hamlet exhibited an Immisch thermometer. 



ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, DECEMBER 4th, 1912. 



The three hundred and fifty-fifth (355th) 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. R. H. Oambage, Presideut, in the Chair. 



Thirty-four members and three visitors were present. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and 

 confirmed. 



The certificate of one candidate for admission as an 

 ordinary member was read for the second time. 



Mr. R. T. Baker and Mr. W. J. Olunies Ross were 

 appointed Scrutineers, and Mr. P. B. Guthrie deputed to 

 preside at the Ballot Box. 



