106 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST 
The President announced that the Council had de- 
cided to offer a prize of £1/1/- for a suitable design for 
a cover for the Australian Naturalist, to be the work 
of, and competed for by, members only. 
The President then gave a most interesting address 
on ‘“‘The Rise and Progress of the Society,’’ referring 
particularly to the work done in the past by its Presidents 
and officers. 
Mr. E. S. Edwards, M.A., voiced the appreciation of 
the Council and members of the recognition accorded to 
the Society by the Department of Education in granting 
them the use of the fine new Assembly Hall for their 
meetings. 
Mr. D. G. Stead, F.L.S., gave an instructive account 
of the work being done by the State trawlers from a scien- 
tific as well as economic aspect. He referred to the dis- 
covery of sharks and certain other fish at great depths, 
this being the first record thereof. 
7th December, 1915.—Mr. W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S., 
presiding, and about 40 present. 
The following were elected members:—Misses Stur- 
rock and J. Roberts, Messrs. L. J. Mitchell, GC. Yates White- 
man, R. Houston, T. J. Little. 
Miss Flockton sent a nest of the mistletoe bird, Dicwum 
hirundinaceum; Miss Sulman, flowering specimens of 
Angophora lanceolatus and Eucalyptus stricta from 
Lawson, with notes; Mr. A. A. Hamilton, a series of 
the New South Wales species of Dryopteris (Aspidium), 
and a selection of mounted plants, with comments; Mr. 
H. KE. Finckh, jaws of a ray, now being sold in Sydney 
as “‘skate,’’ with explanation of the food-crushing design 
of the tesselated teeth; Mr. Froggatt, a collection of 
Myrapoda (Centipedes) from New South Wales and New 
Hebrides, named by M. Broleman, of Pau, France. A list 
of these is being published in the current number of the 
Proce. Linn. Soc., New South Wales. Mr. E. Cheel, seed- 
ling of Hucalyptus Smithii, showing the opposite arrange- 
ment of the first leaves and conspicuous oil glands on the 
young stem above the cotyledons; also a series of interest- 
ing plants from Hill Top. 
Mr. Thos. Steel, F.L.S., gave an excellent lecture on 
“The Sugar Cane,’’ illustrated with a large series of 
specimens, including fresh cane grown at Pennant Hills. 
seedling canes, and a fine set of lantern slides. 
