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Beayou tv.) APRIL 2) 1918) > Parr 2. 
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ORDINARY MEBTINGS. - 
5th February, 1918.—Mr. E. 8. Edwards (President) 
in the chair, and 45 present. tea eae 
Miss Felstead and Mr. Stevenson were duly elected 
members. Seg aes ee 
Mr. W. W, Froggatt exhibited and read a note on 
Nardoo,’? Marsilea drummondi. Mr. H. Cheel,.on behalf 
of Miss le Plastrier, a fungus, Battaria phalloides. Mr. 
Cheel also contributed interesting details of his observa 
tions on the Gup Moth in connection with the secretion 
of manna on the leaves of Hucalyptus. Mr. L. Gallard 
~ showed and read notes on the Yellow-Winged 'Tipula, also 
Thilotheca, a fossil in sandstone, from near Gosford, 
usually found only in shale. Mr. H. E. Finckh, a live 
- Mexican Salamandar (Ascolete), with observations on its 
‘life-history. Mr. W. W. Froggatt delivered a very in- 
‘structive lecture on ‘‘Flies.”” PE 5 ah Soe 
«5th March, 1918—Mr. W. W. Froggatt (Vice-Presi-\ 
dent) in the chair, and about 26 present. An apology 
from the President was read. — et ono 
‘Mr. H. B. Finckh exhibited a flowering plant of the 
Water Hyacinth, which is so great a pest on the Northern 
- Rivers; and Mr. A. G. Hamilton described the means be- — 
ing used for getting rid of it. Mr. A. G. Hamilton, a — 
flowering specimen of Clematis, with one of its leaves 
coloured purple on one half. Miss Steinbeck, a collectio 
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‘of Composites gathered alongside the Trans-Continental 
Railway, including the beautiful pink Acrodineum roseuwm 
Mr. T. Steel contributed a bird note, also one on ‘‘Eedysis 
of Spider’? (Isopoda), and exhibited with extracts, a 
couple of interesting old manuscript books. 3 ee 
- Mr, Froggatt read, on behalf of Mr. Keith McKeown, 
“Notes on the Carpenter Bee,’’ and on behalf of Mr. Ei 
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