The Australian Naturalist 
Vol. V. JULY, 1924. Part 11. 
NO TE .—Members having any matter of interest suitable for public 
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ORDINARY MEETINGS. 
March 3rd.—Mr. E. Cheel, President, in the chair, and @ 
good attendance. Misses A. Fuller, E. Butler and D. Carmody 
were duly elected members. 
Mr. Stead (Hon. Organiser), spoke on the exhibition to 
be held in the Gallery—as last year—from October 8th to 15th, 
and asked members to make the exhibition worthy of the 
Society. 
Mr. A. P. Mackerras then gave a most interesting lecture 
on Astronomy, illustrated with lantern slides. He dealt with 
the Solar system mainly, touching on comets and nebulae, as 
’ well as theories on the formation of satellites, systems, ete. 
Exhibits, Miss MecAnene, Phyllanthus angulata, whose 
fruits, though acrid, make an excellent preserve. Miss H.- 
Butler, B.Se., Marigold (Calendula), exhibiting remarkable 
chloranthy. Mr. A. A. Hamilton, real and false Dandelion 
(Hypochaeris and Taraxacum). Mr. Froggatt, the pupal nest 
of two large Curculionid beetles, which attack the Hoop pine 
(Araucaria Cunninghami) with notes. 
Mr. D. G. Stead, a note on the common Serpula. Miss K. 
Segal, Ginseng from Korea, a plant credited with the power of 
renewing youth. 
; April 1st—The President, Mr. E. Cheel, in the chair, and 
a good attendance. Miss Batty was duly elected to member- 
ship. 
The Hon. Secretary spoke of the valuable gift conferred 
on the Society by Mr. J. H. Maiden, then original Ms. of Rev. 
Dr. Woolls “Plants of N.S. Wales,” which had been given to 
Mr. Maiden by Mrs. Woolls some years ago. 
