XXXVI. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



THE FOLLOWING PAPERS WERE READ! 



1. "Azurite Crystals from Mineral Hill, near Condobolin, 



N.S.W.," by 0. Anderson, m.a., d.Sc 



2. "Notes on Topographical, Ecological and Taxonomic 



Ocean Shoreline Vegetation of the Port Jackson Dis- 

 trict," by A. A. Hamilton. 



Remarks were made by Mr. Halligan and Mr. Hedley. 



3. " Some Determinations of the Heat Conductivity of 



Selenium," by Edna D. Sayce, b.Sc. (Communicated 

 by Acting Professor O. U. Vonwiller). 



4. "Notes on the early Stages of Development of Lysurus 



Gardneri (L. australiensis)," by J. B. Cleland, m.d., 

 and Edwin Cheel. 



5. "A fossil Isopod belonging to the Fresh-water genus 



Phreatoicus" by Charles Chilton, m.a., d.Sc, f.l.s., 

 etc. (Communicated by R. J. Tillyard). 



NOVEMBER 7th, 1917. 



The three hundred and ninety-fourth General Monthly 

 Meeting of the Royal Society of New South Wales was 

 held at the Society's House, 5 Elizabeth Street, at 8 p.m. 



Dr. J. B. Cleland, President, in the Chair. 



Thirty-five members and one visitor 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 second time. 



Mr. A. D. Olle and Mr. A. A. Hamilton were appointed 

 Scrutineers, and Mr. J. Nangle deputed to preside at the 

 Ballot Box. 



The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary 

 members of the Society : — 



