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A71 example of an unexpected source for water in the hush. — 

 Two specimens of the stems of a vine (Vitis sp.) were exhibited, 

 which had been procured from Spicer's Creek, twenty-foui- 

 miles from Warwick, and wliich had been forwarded by Mr, 

 H. Horwitz of that town with tlie information, that the plants 

 from which they were derived, yielded on being tapped a supply 

 of pure water for two days. The Hon. A. C. Gregory, in refer- 

 ence to other vegetable sources foi- water, alluded to a method 

 of obtaining a palatable supply from young ' gum ' (Eucalyp- 

 tus) saplings, by lopping off their tops by a sharp oblique cut 

 and then reversing them ; also to a practice of the blacks in the 

 south of treating the roots of Malice Scrub, after cutting them 

 into lengths, in a somewdiat similar manner. 



FRIDAY, 12th DECEMBER, 1884. 

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



Reginald Roe, Esq., Brisbane, and Henry St. John Wood, 

 Esq., Brisbane, were duly elected members of the Society. 



The following donations were announced : — 



" The Victorian Naturalist," Vol. I. No. 10 and 11. Mel])ourne, 

 1884. From the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria. 



"Southern Science Record." Vol. 1. No. 1-10, 1.3, and Vol. 

 II. No. 2, 3, 6, 7. Melbourne, 1881-82. From W. Weedon, Esq. 



" Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales." 

 Vol. IX., Pt. 3. Sydney, 1884. From the Society. 



" The Australian Irrigationist," Vol. I. No. 4. Melbourne, 

 1884. From the Editor. 



"The Midland Medical Miscellany," Vol. III. No. 34. 

 London, 1884. From the Editor. 



" Russkago Geographicheskago Obshtchestva," Transactions, 

 Vol. XX. Pt. 4. St. Petersburg, 1884. From the Imperial 

 Geographical Society. 



