PROCEEDINGS. 
V 
August 13th, 1912 
Dr C G Thorp, President, in the Chair. 
The list of donations to the l.ibrarv was read. 
The following specimens were exhibited : 
A variety of cut and polished pieces of precious serpentine 
from Western Australia, by E. S. Simpson, B.E., F.C.S. 
A number of plant specimens from Albany, including Ander 
sonia sp., Banksia coccinea. and a Prasophyllum not described in 
Bentham, by Frank Tratman, M.D. 
Examples of Dryandra, by Miss Creeth. 
September 3rd, 1912. 
Dr. C. G. Thorp, President, in the Chair. 
Mr, H. Rowley, F.C.S. . Miss Rowley, Miss Jobson, Miss B. 
Cumpston, and Mr. K. Fairbridge, were elected members of the 
Society. Mr. R. Lapsley was elected a junior member. Mr. 
W. E. Cooke, M.A., F.R.A.S., was elected an honorary member. 
Basil Cooke gave a demonstration of the working of wireless 
telegraphy with apparatus of his own construction. 
October 8th, 1912 
Dr. C. G. Thorp, President, in the Chair. 
The list of donations to the Library was read. 
The following communication was read : — “ Two Methods of 
Weighing the Cornets, in the Assay of Gold Bullion," by A. O. 
Watkins, A.R.S.M., F.G.S. 
Miss Creeth made a report of the excursion which had been 
held in King's Park on 21st September, and handed in a list of 
flowers found there. 
The following specimen was exhibited : — 
A hand specimen of the Boya Dyke, showing a narrower 
dyke cutting across it as a later intrusion, by E. S. Simpson, 
B.E., F.C.S. 
November nth, 1912. 
Dr. C. G. Thorp, President, in the Chair. 
The Rev. James MacDougall, Mr. F. W. Wakefield, and 
Mr. W. C, Thomas were elected members of the Society. 
The list of donations to the Library was read. 
The following communication was read : — 
“ Colour Photography." by Dr. C. G. Thorp. 
The following specimens were exhibited : — 
Large hermit crab, with cluster of eggs attached, occupying 
shell of a gasteropod, Campanile laevis, upon which shell numbers 
of Amalthea australis were parasitic ; also shell of young ( ampanile 
laevis, containing its original inhabitant ; also botanical speci- 
mens ; by E. S. Simpson, B.E., F.C.S. 
