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in electrical furnace, at very high temperature, from the union of 

 carbon and silicon. Walter Howchin, F.G.S., specimens of 

 rocks from Yorke's Peninsula and Kangaroo Island. 



Paper — " Suggestions on the Origin of the Salt Lagoons of 

 Southern Yorke's Peninsula," by Walter Howchin, F.G.S. 



Ballot. — Stirling Smeaton, B.A., C.E., and Chas. F. John- 

 cock as Fellows. 



Ordinary Meeting, April 2, 1901. 



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



Mr. Howchin, referring to the great loss which the Empire 

 had suffered since the last meeting of the Society in the death of 

 the Queen, reminded those present that Her Majesty was for 

 many years the Patron of this Society, and proposed that a fitting 

 letter of sympathy and condolence should be prepared and for- 

 warded to His Majesty King Edward VII., through His Excel- 

 lency Lord Tennyson. Carried. 



Papers. — "Further Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with 

 Descriptions of New Genera and Species," by Rev. Thos. Black- 

 burn, B. A. " Preliminary Notes on the Existence of Glacial 

 Deposits of CanJbrian Age in South Australia," by Walter 

 Howchin, F.G.S. "A South Australian Meteorite," by G. A. 

 Goyder, Government Analyst and Assayer. 



Ordinary Meeting, May 7, 1901. 



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



Exhibits. — Prof. Ralph Tate, F.G.S., exhibited a Succinea, 

 the first land shell from the mamraaliferous deposits. Lake Calla- 

 bonna. Walter Howchin, F.G.S., photographs of the Cambrian 

 glacial beds recently discovered by him in the valley of the Sturt 

 River. These were taken by Mr. Greenlees, of Plympton. Mr. 

 Howchin also exhibited a very interesting series of photographs 

 taken by Prof. David, F.R.S., of Sydney, when he recently 

 visited Mount Kosciusko, of grooved and striated rocks, terminal 

 moraines, and other features of the Post-Pliocene glaciation of 

 that district. J. G. 0. Tepper, F.L.S., &c., exhibited a sprig of 

 Eucalyptus with a colony of scale insects (Eriococcus) which pro- 

 duce the manna found under certain gum-trees. 



Papers. — " Mode of Motion and Transference of Energy 

 Through Space, more especially of Light and Heat," by J. G. O. 

 Tepper, F.L.S., tfec. " Notes on Glacial Beds of Cambrian Age 

 in Far North of South Australia," by C. Chewings, Ph.D., F.G.S. 

 " Further Notes on Eocene Corals " (Part III.), by J. Dennant, 

 F.G.S. 



