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ORDINARY MEETINGS. »\. 
_2nd April, 1912. Ordinary: monthly meeting, Royal So- 
ciety’s tiouse, Mr. E. Cheel (President) in the chair. 
Misses N. Hudson, J. M. O’Dea, and M. J. Wells, and Mr. 
E. Breakwell were unanimously elected members. 
The business was an exhibition evening, and the follow- 
ing exhibits were shown:—Mr, Froggatt, a series of beetles 
and weed weevil from Aru Islands; Miss Brown, a miscel- 
landous collection of insects ‘from Corowa ; Mr. T. Steel, 
fresh examples of two balloon vines, Cardiospermum hirsum 
tum, Wild, a native of Guinea and W. Coast of Africa; and 
C. Halicacabum, Linn, the Queensland Heart-pea or Balloon 
Vine, a plant found in most tropical countries. It +s in: 
digenous to Queensland, but does not occur as far south as 
N.S. Wales. Is easily grown about Sydney, and forms a 
handsome creeper for trellis work. A supply of seed was 
provided for members. _ Mr. Steel also exhibited a living 
specimen of a pretty little Ghecko, Diplodactylus vittatus, 
Gray. Mr. Wickham, life history of three Liparidae 
moths, also a collection of 32-species of moths caught dur- 
ing last summer in his bedroom, at, Mosman. Miss Mabel 
Brewster exhibited a wasp Polistes LTasmaniensis, with its 
cell, and read a most interesting note on the artificial feed- 
ing and development of the larvae. Miss Froggatt read 
a note on a collection of flies attracted by ripe grapes. Mr. 
Luke Gallard exhibited and described a collection of insects, 
mainly parasitic wasps, friendly to the orchardist, Mr. 
G. A. Waterhouse, a very fine collection of skipper butter 
flies. Miss Brewster, ant-lion, Mr. Fine h dermal skele- 
ton of Pipe-fish. Mr. Horne, collection of characteristic 
W. Australian flowers. Master Oliver Edwards, life his- 
tory of a Papilio. Mr. Cheel, a series of plants illustra 
tive of symbiosis, as described in his paper. ~ A paper on 
Variation in Lambertia formosa, by Dr. Lovell, was read 
by the author. 
7th May, 1912. Mr. E. Cheel in the chair. The Presi- 
dent announced, on behalf of Miss Rothwell, that it was pro- 
posed to organise a party to visit Melbourne at the end of the 
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