58 The South Australian Naturalist. 



A PUBLIC AQUARIUM. 



A joint meeting of representatives of the Glenelg Council, 

 the South Australian Aquarium Society, and the Field 

 Naturalists' Section of the Royal Society of South Australia 

 was held in the Royal Society's room at the Institute, 

 North Terrace, on Wednesday evening, June 28. The 

 Mayor of Glenelg (W. Patterson, Esq.) occupied the chair, and 

 announced that the initial difficulty in the matter of a suitable 

 site for the suggested aquarium would be met by the Glenelg 

 Council dedicating a block of land on the foreshore for this 

 purpose. The President of the Aquarium Society (Mr. Edgar 

 R. Waite, F.L.S.) detailed the steps that had led up to the 

 meeting, and briefly outlined the nature and requirements of 

 the suggested building. He moved a resolution to the effect 

 that: "This meeting strongly advocates that active steps be 

 taken to erect and fit out a building at Glenelg for the purpose 

 of a Marine and Fresh-Avater Aquarium, on a site to be dedi- 

 cated by the Glenelg Council." This was seconded by Mr. W. 

 Ham, F.R.E.S. (President of the Field Naturalists' Section), 

 and carried unanimously. On the motion of Alderman Lawton, 

 seconded by Alderman Chaffer, a sub-committee, consisting of 

 the Mayor and three aldermen of Glenelg, and Messrs. Waite, 

 Beck, and Ham, was formed to further advance the project. 

 Mr. H. M. Hale (South Australian Museum) was appointed 

 honorary secretary. Further meetings of the committee have 

 been held, and the project bids fair to become an accomplished 

 fact. 



Excursion to Myponga, May 8, 1922. — A large party 

 travelled by char-a-banc to Myponga, where Mr. and Mrs. 

 Page, who are both nature lovers, received the members and 

 acted as leaders for the day. The trip over Sellick's Hill was 

 a striking one, the ancient reef built by the cup-corals of 

 Cambrian times (Archaeocyathinae) being an interesting fea- 

 ture. Climbing the scarp face, we reach the plateau on which 

 Myponga is situated. Here big gum trees of many species 

 occur. The cabbage gum (Eucalyptus cosmophylla) grows in 

 little clumps like mallee, also the pink gum, with its hard, durable 

 timber, and the well-known stringybark of our hills (E. obli- 

 qua). Two banksias were in flower: the one with the more 

 ornamental and larger brown flower heads is Banksia ornata, 

 the other, with creamy blooms, B. marginata. Only two orchids 

 were found here, both belonging to the same family — Eriochilus 

 autumnalis (called "parsons' bands") and E. fimbriatus, a 

 rare orchid, having a beautiful reddish-green fringed tongue, 



