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Ordinary Meeting, June 4, 1901. 



W. L. Cleland, M.B. (Vice-President), in the chair. 



Exhibits. — Edwin Ashby, a handsome pair of Grebes 

 {Podiceps cristatus) from Victoria. Stirling Smeaton, B.A., 

 Kurdaitcha native tracking and hunting shoes made of Etnu and 

 other feathers and human hair, from Oodnadatta. G. A. Goyder, 

 a meteorite of considerable size, also a portion ground down and 

 etched, showing crystallization. 



Ballot. — J. A. Haslam, B.Sc, Registrar of School of Mines, 

 Adelaide, as a Fellow. Herbert Basedow and Edith CoUison, 

 B.Sc, as associate members. 



Paper. — " Notes on the Extinct Volcanoes of Mounts Gambier 

 and Schank," by Walter Howchin, F.G.S. 



Ordinary Meeting, July 2, 1901. 



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



Exhibits. — Walter Howchin, F.G.S. , a specimen of pure 

 white crystalline stalagmite from the old drive in Anstey's copper 

 mine, near Highercombe. It has a satin-like lustre, and is in 

 the form of aragonite. The deposit from which this stalagmite 

 was taken varies in thickness up to an inch, and perhaps aver- 

 ages a quarter of an inch, and represents about 55 years' growth 

 — a much more rapid increase than a similar formation in Kent's 

 Cavern, Devonshire, England, which has only increased one- 

 twentieth cf an inch in 200 years. This remarkable difference is 

 due, Mr. Howchin thinks, to the very moist condition of the 

 drive and the great evaporation during the year. Near the 

 mouth of the drive the floor and walls are covered with a thick 

 calcareous tufa, produced by the deposit of carbonate of lime on 

 the growing moss. Richard Kleeman, a specimen of highly- 

 fossiliferous calcareous rock from Margaret Creek, Far North, 

 probably of Low^er Cretaceous age. Tin crystals from South 

 Lake, and asbestos from the North. J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S., 

 some galls on Eucalyptus leaves, closely resembling large brown 

 caterpillars. Mr. Tepper, remarking on the large increase of the 

 gall insect, stated that when a boy he had great difficulty in 

 finding galls, but now since Parrots — whose fondness for these 

 was well known — had been killed or driven away, galls had in- 

 creased to a very dangerous degree. 



Paper. — " On the Occurrence of Miocene Limestones at 

 Edithburgh, and their Stratigraphical Relationship to the 

 Eocene of Wool Bay," by Herbert Basedow. 



Ordinary Meeting, August 6, 1901. 

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

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

 from near Blinman. 



