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FRIDAY, 10th OCTOBER, 1884. 

 The President J. Bancroft, esq., M.D., in the Chair. 



The following new members were elected: — F. Mawe, Esq., 

 Charters Towers; John Cameron, Esq. (Sen.), Brisbane; H. 

 W. Radford, Esq., Brisbajic ; W. C. Hume, Esq., Toowoomba. 



The following donations were announced . — 



" Maps and Sections to accompany the report of the Royal 

 Commission of 1871, on British coalfields." From the Hon. A. 

 C. Gregory, C.M.G. 



" Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of 

 Canada for the years 1882 and 1883," Volume I., Montreal, 

 1883. From the Society. 



"Journal of the Royal Society of ISTew South Wales," Vol. 

 XVII., 18«3, Sydney, 1884. From the Society. 



" Notes on two Australian Species of Trigona," by Harold J. 

 Hockings. [Proceedings EntoiiLoloqical Society of London^ 

 August, 1883.] From the Author. 



" Geology," by John J. Stephenson, Ph. D., with an Appendix. 



" On the Carboniferous Invertebrate Fossils of New Mexico," 

 prepared by C. A. White, M D. \_Tlie U.S Geographical Surveys 

 West of 100th Meridian, Vol. III., Supplement. Washington, 

 1881.] From the Hon. A. C. Gregory, C.M.G. 



The Australian Irrigationist," No. 2. Melbourne, 1884. From 

 the Editor. 



The following Paper was read : — 



A PLEA FOR THE PRACTICE OE TfYBRID- 

 ISATION OE PLxiNTS, 



BY 



JAMES PINK, Esq., F.R.H.S., Brisbane Botanical Gardens. 



(Read on 10th October, 1884.; 



The produce of vegetation as found in its primitive state 

 conduces little in a direct manner to the maintenance of civilised 

 man, and it is not until it has been improved by culture that it is 

 really of any value to the world in general. This beneficial 



