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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS 



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For 1900-1901, 



Ordinary Meeting, November 6, 1900. 



Prof. Ralph Tate, F.G.S. (Vice-President), in the chair. 



Exhibits.— Prof, Ralph Tate exhibited a fossil leaf {Cordia ?) 

 collected by the Superintendent of the Stockade from a very fine 

 grained calcareous sandstone overlying the quartzites in the 

 quarry. Assigned age is upland Miocene. J. G. 0. Tepper, 

 F.L.S., showed a double-flowered specimen of Tetratheca ericifolia, 

 this deviation from normal structure being probably the result of 

 local irritation in the plant itself. A. H. C. Zietz, F.L.S., &c., a 

 specimen of Acanthiza. 



Paper. — " Description of a New Species of Acanthiza from 

 South Australia," by A. H. C. Zietz, F.L.S., C.M.Z.S., &c., 

 Assistant-Director of the Museum. 



Ordinary Meeting, December 4, 1900. 



Prof. E. H. Rennie, D.Sc. (President), in the chair. 



Exhibits. — A. H. C. Zietz, F.L.S., &c., specimens of 

 Acanthiza, with special reference to the new species described in 

 his paper read before the Society at the last ordinary meeting. 

 He considered A. tenuirostris to be intermediate between 

 Geobasileus reguloides and A. uropygialis — smaller than the 

 former, but of the same size as the latter bird, and with similar 

 bill, but to be distinguished from either by entire absence of any 

 bright coloring at the base of the tail feathers. Edwin Ashby^ 

 specimen of the white superb warbler {Malurus leuconotus) from 

 near Nackara, on the east side of the Flinders Range ; also a 

 specimen of orange-fronted Ejjhthiamira {E. aurifrons). J. G. 

 O. Tepper, F.L.S., curious abnormal specimen of Foxglove 

 {Digitalis purpurea) and a specimen of carborundum, produced 



