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essa urtice from the New Hebrides. A. ZietTz, F.L.S., showed a 
specimen of Telephusa transversa from Ockenden Creek. It is 
found also in the Finke and Cooper Creeks. 
Batitot.—JoOHN H. Cooke was elected a Fellow, and Joun B. 
CLELAND an Associate. 
Papers.— Petrological Notes,” by J. Mounpren. “S.A. 
Muricide and Fuside,” by J. C. VErco, M.D. 
ORDINARY MEETING, JUNE 4, 1895. 
Prof. R. Tate (President) in the chair. 
The President reported that a suggestion from the Mayor of 
Adelaide to hold a conjoint Conversazione of the Scientific and 
Art Societies towards the end of the present year, had been con- 
sidered at a special Council meeting. It was recommended to 
the favourable notice to the Society. The President and the 
Hon Secretaries were appointed to represent the Society at any 
meetings that might be held to carry the project into effect. 
Exurisits.—W. Howcnin, F.G.S., exhibited a very fine speci- 
men of nested quartz crystals from the quartzite quarries at 
Mitcham; also a pophyritic erratic from Hallett’s Cove, the point 
of interest of which was the formation of pseudomorphic quartz 
in cavities caused by the dissolving of orthoclase feldspar. 
Papers.—Mr. C. HeEpLEY communicated a ‘ Note on Arca 
domingensis,” in which he adds to the list of synonyms furnished 
by Mr. Brazier, Proc. Lin. Soc., N.S. Wales, p. 145, 1894, the 
following names :—A. donaciformis, Rv. ; A. pholadiformis, C. B. 
Adams; and A. laminata, Angas. Prof. Tate stated that 
A. MacCoyi, Tenison Woods, is the same as A. laminata, Angas ; 
and that Mr. Cooke, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. xviii., p. 94, 
1886, considers that there are three species of the type of Arca 
plicata, Chem.—gradata, Brod. and Sow., is the W.-American 
form ; Domingensis and squamosa, Lamarck, is the W.-Indian 
form ; and divaricata, Sowb. (= plicata, Chem.), is the E.-Indian 
form [and the one represented in Australasian seas]. ‘ Supple- 
mentary Notes on Tertiary Geology in Victoria,’ by Prof. R. 
Tate and Joun Dennant, F.G.S. ‘ Characteristics and Origin 
of the Larapintine Flora,” by Prof. R. Tare. 
ORDINARY MEETING, JuLy 2, 1895.. 
Prof. R. Tare (President) in the chair. 
Exuipits.—Prof. Renniz, D.Sc., exhibited for Mr. Turner a 
portion of a nodule of barytes occurring in the clay slates at 
Brighton. 
