ABSTRACT. OF. PROCEEDINGS 
Koval Society of South Australie, 
OrDINARY MEETING, NovEeMBER 6, 1894. 
Prof. R. Tare (President) in the chair. 
Exuipits.—Dr. Strruine exhibited photographs of ‘‘ Meridional 
Ant-hills ” taken by Mr. Foelsche at Knuckey’s Lagoon, N.T., 
some miles south of Palmerston, N.T., together with some speci- 
mens of the ants. The ant-hills are so called from the constant 
disposition of their long axes in a northerly and southerly 
direction. These structures at this locality are from seven to 
eight feet high and about six feet broad, with a concave surface 
to the west, and a convexity to the east. Mr. Saville Kent, 
Inspector of Fisheries, W.A., has noticed similar ant-hills near 
Roebuck Bay, W.A.; and they were also observed by the Horn 
Expedition at Burt Plains in front of the Macdonnell Range. 
J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S., referred to the occurrence of epidote 
and garnet rock in the Barossa Ranges, 8.A., near Tanunda, and 
submitted an analysis of the same made by G. Goyder, jun, the 
Government Analyst. (See Annual Report Sch. Mines, Ade- 
laide, for 1894, p. 147.) Also a sample of a kind of earth eaten 
by the aborigines of Roebuck Bay, W.A., and obtained from the 
ant-hills in the neighbourhood. (For analysis by G. Goyder, 
jun., the Government Analyst, see op. cit., p. 146.) 
Parrer.—‘ Remarks on the Native Tongues in the District of 
Port Darwin, N.T.,” by T. A. Parknovussz, formerly accountant 
and pay-master, S.A. Gov. Railways, Port Darwin. 
OrpINARY MEETING, DECEMBER 4, 1894. 
Prof. R. Tare (President) in the chair. 
Exutsits.—Prof. Tarr exhibited a specimen of the Australian 
Roller (Zurystomus australis) from Walgett ; also photographs 
