xlii. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



The President announced that the Council recommended the 

 election of the following gentlemen as Honorary Members of the 

 Society, viz. : — 



Professor J. W. Judd, c.b., f.r.s., f.g.s., Royal College of 



Science, London. 

 Professor Simon Newcoinb, ll.d.,pii D.,For. Mem.R.s., Lond. etc. 



United States Navy, Washington. 

 Sir Benjamin Baker, k.c.m.g., d.Sc, ll.d., f.r.s., etc., 2 Queen 

 Square Place, London, S.W. 

 The election was carried unanimously. 



Also that the Clarke Memorial Medal for 1901 had been awarded 

 to Mr. Edward John Eyre, the Explorer, Walreddon Manor, 

 Tavistock, England. 



Nineteen Volumes, 153 Parts, 6 Reports and 9 Pamphlets, total 

 187, received as donations since the last meeting were laid upon 

 the table and acknowledged. 



THE FOLLOWING PAPERS WERE READ : 



1. "The Thurrawal Language," by R. H. Mathews, l.s. 



In this paper the author describes the structure of the native 

 speech of the aborigines of the region between Jervis Bay and 

 Port Hacking. An appendix exhibits the elements of some other 

 dialects adjoining the Thurrawal tribes on the north and west, the 

 whole concluding with an extensive Vocabulary. 



2. "Note on the sesquiterpene of Eucalyptus oils," by Henry G. 



Smith, f.c.s., Assistant Curator, Technological Museum. 



In this paper the author shewed that a sesquiterpene occurs in 

 many Eucalyptus oils, and that it is this constituent that gives 

 the pink colouration to Eucalyptus oil when testing for eucalyptol 

 with phosphoric acid. In the oil of E. hwmastoma the sesquiterpene 

 occurs in large amount, over fifty per cent, of the crude oil distilling 

 above 255° C. It is also present in quantity in the oils of several 

 other species. Crystallised chemical products could not be obtained 

 with it by the methods used. It is characterised by a range of 

 five colour reactions which it gives with acids and with bromine 



