The Australian Naturalist 
Vol. IV. OCTOBER 1, 1921. Part 16. 
NOTE.—Members having any matter of interest suitable for public 
ation in these pages are requested to communicate with the Lditor 
NOTICE TO MEMBERS. 
It is particularly requested that members exhibiting speci- 
mens will hand to the Hon. Secretary a written list thereof 
with notes, for publication in the Naturalist. In this way only 
will it be possible to record the notes and exhibits at our meet- 
ings.—Hd. 
ORDINARY MEETINGS. 
June 7th, 1921.—The President (Mr. A. G. Hamilton) in 
the chair. Misses C. T. Greig and M. Holland and Mrs. J. 
H. Parry’were duly elected members. Mr. Finckh announced 
that he had received the sad news of the death of Mr. C. Gaggin, 
a regular attendant at our meetings and. excursions. The 
meeting was an open one for members. Mr. Finckh exhibited 
a lateral shoot taken from Agave acuminata which had pro- 
duced a short flower spike, and asked if it was usual for these 
. laterals to flower at the same time as the main shoot which 
produces a long spike, which, after the seeds have set, collapses 
and withers. .It was generally agreed that the occurrence was 
not common, as usually only the main shoot produces a flower 
‘spike. 
Mr. Finckh also read abstracts from a work on gold fish, 
and exhibited specimens and drawings. 
Miss Drummond exhibited a specimen of breccia from the 
Hornsby voleanie neck, showing that the coal-like enclosures 
are not coal, but wood. 
Mr. Cheel read an account published in the Sydney Morn- 
‘ing Herald, May 25th, 1921, under the heading:—“A Mam- 
moth Mushroom,’ which had been collected near Goulburn, 
measuring 42 inches in circumference, 13 inches in diameter, 
and with a stem 2} inches in thickness. Mr. Cheel stated 
that this was not by any means the largest on record. The 
