SCIENCE, AND INDUSTRY. = 
LINNEAN SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
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At the August meeting, Mr. Norman Bartlett Friend, 42 Pile-street, Dulwich i 
Hill, was elected an ordinary member of the Society. 
A cireular was received from the Australasian Association for the Adyance- 
ment of Science (Mr. J. H. Maiden, Permanent Honorary Secretary), announcing — 
that the next meeting is to take place in Hobart on 5th January, 1921. _ 
Papers READ. 
1. A list of the species of Australian Carabidw which range beyond Australia 
and its dependent islands. By T. G. Sloane. é . 
Forty-four Australian species are recorded from localities outside Australia 
and its dependent islands as follows:—Africa, 1; Amboyna, 1; Aru Islands, 1; — 
Asia, 6; S.E. Asia, 4; Borneo, 1; Burma, 1; Celebes, 3; Ceylon, 5; Egypt, 1; 
India, 2; Java, 8; Lord Howe Island, 2; Malay Archipelago, 6; New Caledonia, — 
12; New Guinea, 10; New Zealand, 3; Siam, 1; Sumatra, 1; Sumbawa, 3. 
2, On dental incrustations and the so-called “ gold-plating” of sheep’s teeth. — 
By Thos. Steel, F.L.S. : ’ a 
For many years past there have appeared from time to time in newspapers — 
and magazines published all over the world statements as to the occurrence of 
a metallic incrustation on the teeth of sheep. Popularly this incrustation, being” 
frequently of a yellow tint, has been attributed to gold, supposed to haye been 
derived from particles of that metal scattered about the pastures. Complete — 
analyses are given of the incrustation from sheep, ox, man, and a number of other — 
animals, and it is shown to consist of a phosphatic salivary deposit or calculus, 
and that it is common to the teeth of all mammals and of several other animals. 
3. On the structure of the resin-secreting glands in some Australian plants. 
By Marjorie I. Collins, B.Sc., Linnean Macleay Fellow of the Society in Botany. 
An account of certain types of glandular hair and of the development of the — 
glands observed during an investigation of the resinous secretion of the bud in — 
seven Australian genera of the Natural Orders Sapindaceo, Leguminosee (Sub-— 
order Mimosew), Composite, Goodeniacew, and Myoporinew. ' aa 
4. The Geology and Petrology of the Great Serpentine Belt of New .South 
Wales. Part ix. The Geology, Paleontology, and Petrography of the Curra- 
bubula District, with notes on adjacent Regions, . By Prof. W. N. Benson, D.Sc. — 
F.G.S., W. S. Dun, and W. R. Browne, B.Se., Section B. Paleontology. | = 
(i) Descriptive portion (W. 8. Dun and W. N. Benson). Over ninety species — 
are recognised, comprising corals, bryozoa, brachiopods, pelecypods, gastropods, 
seaphopods, cephalopods, and trilobites, of which five forms previously reported 
have now heen for the first time critically examined, seven are new records for — 
_ the State, and fifteen species and three varieties are described as new. One ~ 
new genus of corals is also roposed—a, simple turbinate form with a corallum _ 
of the Lithostrotion type. Notes are added by Professor Lawson on two indeter- 
minable plant-petrifactions. (ii) !A comparison of the Burindi fauna with 
the Lower Carboniferous faunal succession in the British Isles (W. N. Benson) — 
shows that on the evidence of thirty-one British species of brachiopods in the — 
_ Burindi Series it should be placed at the very base of the Viséan Series or on 
the Tournaisian-Viséan boundary. This accords remarkably well with De 
IXoninck’s conclusions put forward forty years ago. The presence of some typically 
'Viséan and typically Tournaisian forms suggests the possibility of faunal zon 
into which the Burindi Series may ultimately be divided, though it is held — 
that this will not readily be proved. In an appendix, F, Chapman describes one 
species of Chwtetes and one genus and three species of Bryozoa as new. 
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