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tralia, which was picked up dead on a gravel path in Ade- 

 laide. 



Dr. Morgan exhibited— (1) Pelvis, sternum, and shoul- 

 der-girdle of the lyrebird, and similar bones of the magpie 

 and parrot for comparison ; (2) syrinx or vocal organ of lyre- 

 bird ] (3) contents of stomach of same, consisting of beetles, 

 spiders, caterpillars, and small stones. 



Dr. Pulleine, M.B., CM., the male of the common trap- 

 door spider. 



The President exhibited a pair of fins of a fish attri- 

 buted by Mr. Zietz to the butterfly gurnard, not the flying 

 gurnard ; (2) a cuttlebone of an apparently new species re- 

 sembling somewhat the Sepia elongata of the Red Sea ; (3) a 

 crab which had lost its left claw at the second articulation, 

 showing a capsule springing from the joint, containing the 

 embryo of the whole of the missing parts. 



Papers. — The following papers were laid on the table : 

 — ''Notes on South Australian Decapod Crustacea," Part v., 

 by W. H. Baker. "New Australian Lepidoptera, with Syno- 

 nymic Notes," No. XX., by Oswald B. Lower. ''Descriptions of 

 Australian Curculionidas, with Notes on Previously-described 

 Species," Part v., by Arthur M. Lea, Government Entomolo- 

 gist, Tasmania. 



Ordinary Meeting, August 6, 1907. 



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

 chair. 



Nomination. — Robert Thomson Melrose, of Mount Plea- 

 sant, as a Fellow. 



Dr. Pulleine, referring to the proposal to transfer the 

 classified collection of plants in the Botanic Gardens to the 

 experimental area, expressed his fear that in so doing many 

 valuable Australian shrubs now growing in the classified bor- 

 ders might be destroyed. For this reason, and also that a 

 properly-classified garden for the study of botany might be 

 secured, Dr. Pulleine proposed — "That in the opinion of this 

 Society the classified garden in the Botanic Gardens should 

 not be abolished, but preserved in its present site, and as far 

 as possible the natural orders and species should be repre- 

 sented b}'^ Australian plants" ; seconded by Mr. Black, and 

 carried. 



It was further proposed by Mr. S. Dixon, seconded 

 by Mr. Howchin, and carried — "That a copy of the above 

 resolution be forwarded to the Chairman of the Board of Go- 

 vernors of the Botanic Gardens." 



Dr. Pulleine was requested to interview Mr. Holtze, the 

 Director of the Gardens, in reference to this matter. 



