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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 
Abstract of Proceedings, 31st July, 1944. 
The Ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Society was held in the 
Department of Geology of the University on Monday, 31st July, at 
8 p.m., with the President (Mr. F. A. Perkins) in the chair. Twenty- 
five members and friends were present. The minutes of the previous 
meeting were read and confirmed. Miss Leone Tod and Dr. E. J. Reye 
were nominated for Ordinary Membership, and Mr. A. M. Tuffley, Mr. 
T. D. Dimmick, and Mr. N. Hoyling for Associate Membership. 
Prof. T. G. H. Jones gave an account of the life and work of John 
Dalton, in which attention was paid to the time in which he lived and 
the limitations imposed on scientific work in its early stages of develop- 
ment. It was stressed that Dalton had achieved scientific fame of the 
highest order in placing chemistry with his atomic theory on a 
quantitative basis. Dalton’s law of partial pressures, his contribution 
to the law governing the thermal expansion of gases, the atomic theory 
and the Dalton system of chemical notation, the determination of 
atomic weights, the law of combining proportions were reviewed and 
the value of these contributions to scientific progress discussed. It 
was concluded that the Royal Society could in the centenary year of 
his death pay well deserved honour to his memory. 
The following papers were presented: — 
“Triassic Insects of Queensland. I. Eoses, a Probable Lepidop- 
terous Insect from the Triassic Beds of Mount Crosby, Queensland,” 
by N. B. Tindale, communicated by Mr. T. D. Dimmick. 
“Some Permian Foraminifera from Eastern Australia,” and 
“ Permian Ostracoda from Eastern Australia/’ by Irene Crespin, 
communicated by Mr. 0. A. Jones. 
“On Streptachne R. Brown and Pheidochloa genus novum, two 
genera of grasses from Queensland,” by S. T. Blake. 
Dr. H. I. Jensen exhibited on behalf of Mr. F. Konig, miner, Innott 
Hot Springs, a fine collection of tin and tin-topaz specimens from Mr. 
F. Konig ’s mine on Mt. Gibson. He also showed specimens of 
Coorongite from South Australia and Kauri Gum from Mt. Spurgeon, 
North Queensland. 
Abstract of Proceedings, 28th August, 1944. 
The Ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Society was held in the 
Geology Department of the University on Monday, 28th August, at 
8 p.m., with the President (Mr. F. A. Perkins) in the chair. About fifty 
members and friends were present. The minutes of the previous 
meeting were read and confirmed. Miss L. Tod and Dr. E. J. Reye 
were elected to Ordinary Membership, and Mr. A. M. Tuffley, Mr. T. D. 
Dimmick, and Mr. N. Hoyling to Associate Membership. Mr.-C. C. 
Chapman was proposed for Ordinary Membership. 
Films were shown of native life in the Mount Liebig region of 
Central Australia, accompanied by a commentary by Mr. T. G. H. 
Strehlow. The speaker first made some introductory remarks on the 
history and general background of the Mount Liebig expedition film. 
This expedition was organised by the Anthropological Board of the 
