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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



|^ogaI§ocietg of gonth Australia, 



For 1896-97. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 3, 1896. 



Walter Howchin, F.G.S. (President), in the chair. 



Exhibits. — J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S., laid on the table a case 

 of Lepidoptera. Dr. Morgan exhibited a large collection of birds 

 in illustration of his paper. 



Obituary Notice. — The President referred in feeling terms to 

 the loss science had substained in the death of Baron F. von 

 Mueller ; and it was decided to place a minute on record testify- 

 ing to the high value of his achievements in the fields of science. 



Important Discovery. — The President announced that Prof. 

 David, of the Sydney University, had discovered fossils, 

 Radiolaria, in black cherty bands in silicious shales at Crystal 

 Brook, S.A. These rocks had previously been considered of 

 Archaean age. 



Election of Hon. Sec. — G. G. Mayo was elected an additional 

 Hon. Sec, vice W. B. Poole resigned. 



Papers. — " List of Birds in the Neighbourhood of Laura, 

 S.A.," by Dr. Morgan. " Corrosion of Brass Pins in Entomo- 

 logical Specimens," by J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S. 



Ordinary Meeting, April 6, 1897. 



Walter Howchin, F.G.S. (President), in the chair. 



Exhibits. — Prof. Tate, F.G.S., exhibited the following 

 minerals : — Plumosite, the capillary form of Jamesonite ; 

 3£o?iazite> the source of cerium and lanthanum ; an unnamed 

 form of calcic borate, possibly an anhydrous form of Bechelite ; 

 Coquimbite, a tersulphate of iron in its exceedingly rare purplish 

 form ; and a specimen of telluride of gold, W.A. Also rock 

 specimens illustrating crush-conglomerate, a specimen of contact 

 metamorphism, and a specimen of the alteration of diorite to 

 serpentine. J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S., laid on the table a collec- 

 tion of Lepidoptera from the Solomon Islands, consisting of 191 



