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straight hind claw; a mound-building bird ( Altya'podius du- 

 'perrtyi); the nutmeg pigeon ( Myristiciora spdorrhoa); rhe 

 little green pigeon (ClicUcophaps ckrysockluraj, with its 

 bronze - green wings ; the fawn - breasted kingfisher 

 ( Due do ctrvinnj ( Hair yon sanctum), and Macleay 

 kingfisher; a bar-shoulder dove (Geopelia Iivintraiiaj ; 

 the red - collared lorikeet (Trichoglossus rubri- 

 turqursj, found at Port Keats all the year, seeming to 

 fill the place in Northern Australia that the blue moun- 

 tain does in tlie South. Mr. Ashby also showed skins of the 

 white-quilled honeyeater ( Entoniyza cdhipeniiisj, said to have 

 a gold ring around the ins; a Drongo (i'hihia hracteata) ; 

 white - gaped honeyeater ( Ftdotis unicoJorj. Mr A. 

 H. C. ZiETZ, F.L.S., several leeches found on a 

 dog-shark by Mr. E. J. Bradley at Port Willunga (speci/ie 

 name, kontohdella). Mr. J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S., a case of 

 Australian Cicadidce. The first time that a named series 

 of this family of Horn opt era ( H emipte ra ) had been exhibited 

 here. 



Papers. — "Radium at Moonta Mines,'' by S. Radcliff. 

 communicated by Professor W. H. Bragg, M.A. ''Certain N.'ivv 

 Mineral Species, associated with Carnotite in the Radio-ac- 

 tive Ore Body, near Olary/' by Douglas Mawson, B.Sc. B.E. 

 "Preliminary Analytical Notes on the Minerals Described in 

 the Preceding Paper," by Professor E. H. Rennie, D.Sc, and 

 W. T. Cooke, D.Sc. 



Annual Meeting, October 2, 1906. 



The President (J. C. Verco, M.D., E.R.C.S.) in the 

 chair. 



The annual report and balance-sheet were read and con- 

 firmed. 



Election of Officers. — President, J. C. Verco, M.D., 

 F.R.C.S. ; Vice-Presidents, Professor E. H. Rennie, M.A., 

 D.Sc, and Rev. Thomas Blackburn, B.A. ; tion. Treasurer, 

 Walter Rutt, C.E. ; Members of Council, Walter Howchin, 

 F.G.S., Lecturer on Geology and Palceontology at the Ade- 

 laide University, and Edwin Ashby ; Auditors, J. S. Lloyd 

 and David Fleming. 



Exhibits. — A new Caladenia, in formalin, was exhibit- 

 ed and described by R. S. Rogers, M.A., M.D. J. G. 0. 

 Tepper, F.L.S., some remarkable galls, found on the twigs of 

 Eucalyptus leucoocylon, in a more or less dense cluster of 

 acutely conical form, from one to two inches long, each con- 

 taining only one larva. On May 16 some clusters were placed 

 in a glass case, and the twig kept fresh as long as possible. 



