g6 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 



The following gentlemen were elected Office-bearers and Council 

 for 1891.— President: Professor W. A. Haswell, M.A., D.Sc. Vice- 

 Presidents : James C. Cox, M.D., F.L.S., C. S. Wilkinson, F.L.S., 

 F.G.S., Rev. W. Woolls, Ph.D., F.L.S. Honorary Secretaries : The 

 Hon. Sir. William Macleay, Kt, M.L.C., F.L.S., and P. N. Trebeck, 

 J. P. Honorary Treasurer : The Hon. James Norton. LL.D., M.L.C. 

 Director and Librarian : J. J. Fletcher, M.A., B.Sc. Council: Messrs. 

 John Brazier, F.L.S., T. W. Edgeworth David, B.A., F.G.S., H. Deane, 

 M. A., C.E., Thomas Dixson, M.B., -Ch.M., Robert Etheridge, Junr., 

 J. H. Maiden, F.L.S., F.C.S., E. G. W. Palmer, Percival R. Pedley, 

 and Thomas Whitelegge, F.R.M S. 



Ordinary Meeting. 



Dr. J. C. Cox, Vice-President, in the chair. 



New Member. — Mr. Walter S. Duncan, Inverell. 



Paper. — " Notes on the Occurrence of Stilbite in the eruptive 

 rocks of Jamberoo, N.S. W." By B. G. Engelhardt. 



Mr. David remarked that the occurrence of stilbite at Kiama 

 was very interesting. He too had noticed the presence of the same 

 mineral with remarkable persistence in the lavas which are inter- 

 bedded with the productive coal-measures of Raymond Terrace, 

 Maitland, and Greta, which lavas are probably of near about the 

 same age as those of Kiama. Mr. R. L. Jack, F.G.S., the Govt. 

 Geologist of Queensland, has recorded the occurrence of a similar 

 mineral iu the lavas which there underlie the Bo wen River coal-field. 

 This is the first record however, of the occurrence of stilbite at 

 Kiama. 



Mr. Brazier exhibited a lamp of native pottery from the Pelew 

 Islands, collected by. Dr. John Habe. Also on behalf of Mr. R. C. 

 Rossiter, Corr. Member, of Noumea, New Caledonia, two very fine 

 examples of Cyprcea tigris, Linne, having the dorsal surface of a fine 

 bright yellow colour with very few spots, the margins having the 

 spots very small and of a beautiful cream colour. 



Mr. Froggatt exhibited two specimens of a grasshopper (Fam. 

 Gryllidce), taken at Double Bay, which frequents the flowers of 

 Eucalyptus corymbosa in order to capture the common honey bees 

 {Apis mellifica) visiting the blossoms. 



Also, a few specimens of Hymenoptera received from the Rev. T. 

 Blackburn, B.A., who captured them on the snow at altitudes of from 

 5,000 to 6,100 feet, during his trip to the Australian Alps, Victoria, 

 last November. 



Mr. Musson exhibited on behalf of Mr. Moseley of Narrabri, an 

 example of the freckled duck, Anas nasvosa, Gould, obtained at 

 Narran, near Angledool, not far from the Queensland border, early in 

 December last. 



The Rev. R. Collie showed an interesting collection of sponges 

 from Wollongong, and a fine specimen of Gorgonia from Thursday 

 Island. 



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