ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. xlv. 



The certificates of two candidates were read for the third time, 

 of three for the second time, and of one for the first time. 



The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary members 

 of the Society : — 



Lindeman, Charles F., Strathfield. 

 McMaster, Colin James, Longueville. 



A letter was read from the Hon. Secretary of the Tate Memorial,. 

 Adelaide, calling attention to the Fund being raised to perpetuate 

 the memory of the late Professor Tate, for twenty- six years 

 Professor of Natural Science in the Adelaide University. It was 

 proposed to erect a Memorial Tablet and to establish a Tate 

 Medal for Geology. 



Sixty-three Volumes, 158 Parts, 51 Reports, 5 Pamphlets, 3 

 Meteorological Charts, and 12 Geological and Topographical Maps, 

 total 292, received as donations since the last meeting, were laid 

 upon the table and acknowledged. 



THE FOLLOWING PAPERS WERE READ : 



1. "The Gums, Resins, and other Vegetable Exudations of 

 Australia," by J. H. Maiden, Government Botanist and 

 Director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney. 



The introductory portion of the paper points out the difficulties 

 in the collection of these substances in our sparsely populated 

 territory, and that frequently those who have been supplied with 

 material for commercial purposes or research have not been 

 furnished with it in sufficient quantity or with proper data The 

 author gives a list of Natural Orders which in Australia yield 

 both gums and resins, classifying them according as the gum or 

 resin is the predominating substance. The paper contains a 

 tentative list of those Orders which yield kinos, and a list is 

 given of those exudations which specially merit the attention of 

 the research chemist. Then follows the main portion of the 

 paper, which contains notes on all the exudations known to the 

 author, arranged in botanical sequence. References are given to 

 papers by various workers, a number of exudations are now 



