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THE 
Australtan Paturaltst. 
Vou. L. Fe ; ; OCTOBHR, 1909. a5) ayes 
NOTE.—Members having any matter of interest suitable for publication 
in these pages are requested to communicate with the Editor. 
Orpinary MEeEtiING.—The ordinary monthly meeting was 
held at 82 Pitt-street, on Thursday evening, July 1, 1909, 
the President (Mr. David G. Stead) in the chair. 
BusIness.—Owing to the steamer on which Mr. A. S. le 
Souéf was returning from the Manning River being delayed, 
he was unable to deliver his lecture, ‘‘Notes on Zoo Work.”’ 
The President filled in the evening with an impromptu lec- 
ture on fish life, illustrated by numerous lantern pictures. 
ANNUAL MEETING.—The annual meeting was held on Aug- 
ust 5th, 1909, the President (Mr. D. G. Stead) in the chair, 
when the Annual Report of the Council and the-hon. Trea- 
surer’s Balance Sheet were read and adopted. The retiring 
President delivered an address entiteld ‘‘Fisheries of New 
South Wales: Present and Potential,’’ which he illustrated 
with a series of beautiful lantern slides. 
ELECTION OF OFrFIcERS.—The Officers and Council for the 
ensuing year were elected as per list on cover. 
OrpinARY Meretinc.—The ordinary monthly meeting was 
held at 82 Pitt-street, on Thursday evening, September 2, 
1907, the President (Mr. W. W. Froggatt, I°.L.S.), in the 
chair. 
ELEctTIONS.—Messrs. H. K. Anderson and J. -H. 
Parry 
were elected ordinary members of the Club. 
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Bustness.—The President announced that Mr. Gurney 
had been called away to Glen Innes on departmental busi- 
ness, and consequently his lecture would have to be post- 
poned. Mr. Froggatt, to make up for Mr. Gurney’s ab- 
sence, gave an account of his recent trip to the Solomon 
Islands, and showed a beautiful collection of Solomon Island 
insects, chiefly Coleoptera, which he had made while away. 
_ Exuisirs.—Mr. C. Coles—web and pupae of a butterfly 
(Delias harpalyce), from South Gippsland. Mr. David G. 
Stead—a curious species of flounder (Pelecanichthys cru- 
menalis), from Hawaii. Mr. H. E. Finckh—living Tudbu- 
Zaria, from Circular Quay. Mr. Harrison—the undescribed 
egg of the large-billed black cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus 
macrorhynchus), received through Mr. Edwin Ashby, of 
Adelaide, from Cape Ford, Northern Territory. 
