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nula. In the sandhills close to the sea there is a verv remark- 

 able raised beach. Separated from the present beach by sand- 

 hills 20 feet high is a hollow about one and a half acres in 

 extent. Here was found a well-defined deposit of cuttle bones 

 about a foot thick, mixed with bivalve shells, and an immense 

 number of a small univalve, Truncatella scalarina. Not a single 

 specimen of this shell was found on the beach. It was noticed 

 that the great majority of bivalves had been bored by car- 

 nivorous Gasteropods, while very few on the present beach 

 were. This place Avould well repay further examination. 



Our kind friends took the party to Levens beach, about 

 twenty miles south of Minlacowie. Here again amazing num- 

 bers of shells of a few species were seen. ^>ry large specimens 

 of Cardium tenuicostatum were taken. Occasionally the beau- 

 tiful Paper Nautilus (Arg'onauta ozyrata)is cast up, but we 

 obtained not even a fragment. We visited the Point Turton 

 flux quarries. There is a huge deposit of polyzoal limestone, 

 which is very easily quarried, carted to the jetty, and shipped 

 to Port Pirie for use in the smelters. -Unfortunately none has 

 heen shipped for several years. Some beautiful specmiens were 

 secured, including a cast of a large cowry. This place would be 

 of great interest to a palaeontologist, the cliffs being a mass of 

 polyzoa, corals, shells, s]unes of echinoderms, etc. An intro- 

 duced weed, known locally as ''Sandy rocket," gives the 

 farmers an immense amount of extra work, adding, it is said, 

 about 10s. per acre to the cost of preparing land for seeding! 

 We were grieved to note that hardly any tree planting is being 

 done to replace the 'fast disappearing niallee and sheaoak. At 

 Minlaton we were shown a few red gums, quite a noveltv on 

 the Peninsula. They are hoary with age, but no young Ojies 

 are coming on to take their place. 



FIELD NATURALISTS IN THE SOUTH. 



On Monday, May 8, a party of members of the Field 

 Naturalists' Section of the Royal Society journeyed to Myponga 

 by charabanc. The vicAvs from the top of Willunga Range, 

 after the difficult rise at Sellick's Hill had been surmounted, 

 were very beautiful. From the top of Sellick's Hill the view 

 extends to the noi'th over the cultivated plains at the foot of 



