THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 95 
Council, President, and Secretary. Mr. Cheel had relin- 
quished the Secretaryship through pressure of work, and 
he knew he voiced the feeling of each member of the 
Society in thanking him on their behalf for his unfailing 
courtesy, his generous help, and unstinted devotion dur- 
ing many years. Messrs. Finckh, Waterhouse, and Hd- 
wards also testified to their sense of the value of Mr. 
Cheel's services. A cordial vote of thanks was carried by 
acclamation. 
ORDINARY MEETING. 
September 7, 1915.—Mr. W. W. Froggatt, F.E.S., 
F.f..S., President, in the chair, and about 40 members 
and visitors present. 
Mr. L. Gallard gave excerpts from his prize essay on 
“Insects associated with Acacia decurrens,’’ iUlustrated 
with most carefully prepared specimens. Mr. Gallard’s 
remarks were highly instructive, and gave much infor- 
mation on the life-history of both useful and destructive 
insects which frequent this tree. An interesting ex- 
hibit was a live long-tailed wasp, Megalyra shuchardt, 
with an ovipositor three inches long, which is used by 
the insect for reaching the wood-boring larve of longi- 
corn beetles. A pleasing feature of the meeting was the 
introduction of a ‘‘Members’ Hour,’’ in which a large 
number of exhibits were discussed. Amongst these were 
a ‘‘Punk’’ Fungus, exhibited by the President, who ex- 
plained how the Aborigines use it to carry fire about with 
them. Mur. Beckford, a Cymbidium, from Siam; Mr. Car- 
ter, a couple of beetles from the fighting line in Galli- 
poli, collected by his son, Captain Carter; Mr. Zeck, a 
geranium, with a leaf showing marginal cohesion; Mr. A. 
A. Hamilton, Filmy Ferns, representing the New South 
Wales members of the genus Trichomanes, also a series 
of mounted specimens of interesting plants; Mr. Shiress, 
Tetratheca thymifolia var alba and Boronia Fraseri, from 
Hornsby; Mr. Wickham, caterpillar and cocoons of Nola 
metallopa; and Miss le Plastrier, Dichondra repens. 
Mr. A. A. Hamilton read a paper on Callistemon 
lanceolatus. 
The President announced the resignation of Mr. W. 
M. Carne from the Council, owing to his having volun- 
teered for. the fighting line, and its selection of Mr. A. 
