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Annual Meeting, October 17, 1893. 



Prof. Tate, F.G.8., RL.8. (President), in the chair. 



Auditof;.— D. J. Adcock was elected Auditor, for the current 

 year. 



Ballot. — Marquis de Gkeookio, Palermo, and M. Cossmann,. 

 Paris, were elected Honorary Fellows of the Society. 



Reports.^ — ^The Annual Pieport of the Council and Balance- 

 sheet were read and adopted. The Annual Reports and Balance- 

 sheets of the Field Naturalists' Section, the Microscopical 

 Section, and the Astronomical Section, were accepted. 



Election of Council. — The Council for the ensuing year 

 was elected as follows : — President, Prof. Tate, F.Gr.S., F.L.S. ; 

 Vice-Presidents, Rev. Thomas Black])urn, B.A., and Maurice 

 Holtze, F.L.S. ; Hon. Treasurer, Walter Rutt, C.E. ; Hon. 

 Secretaries, \V. L. Cleland, M.B., and W. C. Grasby ; Members 

 of Council, Prof. Rennie, D.Sc, E. C. Stirling, M.D., C.M.G.. 

 F.R.S., Walter Howchin, F.G.S., Samuel Dixon, J. S. Lloyd, 

 and AV. B. Poole. 



Alteration of Rules. — The alterations in rules 36, 37, 48 

 and 49 made at the November meeting w ere confirmed. 



Exhibits. — W. G. Howchin, F.G.S., exhibited a fossil sponge 

 HjjalosteJia from the Silurian rocks of the McDonnell Rang'e, 

 forwarded by Mr. Thornton, of Temple Downs The only 

 other site where it is known to occur in South Australia is in 

 the Cambrian Rocks at Curramulka. J. G. (). Tepper, F.L.S., 

 showed a collection of plants from the S.W. of Western 

 Australia. George Sweet, F.G.S., forwarded through Prof. 

 Tate, F.G.S., specimens of the fossil flora of the Leigh Creek 

 coal-basin, which contained the following : — TJiinnfeldia odonto- 

 pteroides, and T. media ; Equisetum, two species .• Tcenio- 

 pteris, two species: Macrotceniopteris Wianamattce : Trichomanites 

 laxum (?): and Otozomanites, new species. 



Papers. — " Notes and Remarks of S.A. llhopalocera," by J. 

 G. O. Tepper, F.L.S. "New Australian Heterocera,'' by 

 Oswald Lower, F.Ent.S. " Descriptions of New Coleoptera," 

 by Rev. Thos. Blackburn, B.A. "Gastropods of the Older 

 Tertiaries, Australia " and " New Fossil (xastropods," by Prof. 

 Tate, F.G.S. 



