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

 ''Revision of the Australian Fmcliidct,'' by Edward Meyrick, 

 B.A., F.L.S., and Oswald B. Lower, F.E.S., Lond. "Notes 

 on South Australian Marine Mollusca, with Description of 

 New Species," Part vi., by J. C. Verco, M.D., F.R.C.S. Dr. 

 Verco exhibited specimens of shells — mostly of small size — 

 obtained from deep dredgings off Cape Jaffa, Bea-chport, and 

 outside the Neptunes, and enlarged drawings of some of the 

 more interesting of these shells by Dr. Pulleine. Dr. Verco 

 gave some interesting extracts from the paper. 



Mr. Howchin thanked the President for the information 

 he had given them, and directed the attention of the meeting 

 to two points of considerable importance brought out by these 

 studies of shells — first, the reduction in the number of species, 

 by comparing the specimens obtained from various localities, 

 which proved them to be synonymic; and in the second place 

 the light they may throw on the age of geological formations, 

 particularly the age of the various members of the Cainozoic 

 series. 



Ordinary Meeting, September 3, 1907. 



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

 chair. 



Nominations. — Noel A. Webb, barrister, of Adelaide, 

 and H. A. Sweetapple, medical practitioner, of Parkside, as 

 Fellows, and Herbert Basedow, science student, at present in 

 Germany, as * Corresponding Member. 



Ballot. — Robert Thomson Melrose, of Mount Pleasant, 

 sheepfarmer, was elected a Fellow. 



Auditors. — J. S. Lloyd, F.T.A., S.A., and Stirling 

 Smeaton, B.A., C.E., were elected Auditors. 



Exhibits. — A. H. C. Zietz, F.L.S., exhibited a dark 

 concretion of tubular form similar to the sandpipes which 

 form round roots in sandy districts. The specimen, sent by 

 Mr. R. F. Purdue, was found in the tindrifts at Gladstone, 

 Tasmania, close to Purdue's tinmines (alluvial), forty feet 

 from the surface. W. H. Selway, an Acianfhus, caiidafv?, 

 from near the Square Waterhole. J. McC. Black, a Spren- 

 gelia incarnata of peculiar form from the same district. 



Papers. — R. S. Rogers, M.A., M.D., read a note de- 

 scriptive of a new species of Orchid, Caladenia futelafa. 

 "Notes on South Australian Marine Mollusca, with Descrip- 

 tion of New Species," Part ^^i., by J. C. Verco, M.D., 

 F.R.C.S. 



The Annual Meeting, October 1, 1907. 

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

 chair. 



