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OrpDINARY MEETING, May 1, 1894. 
Prof. R. Tare (President) in the chair. 
Exuisirs.—W. Howcuin, F.G.S8., laid on the table a collection 
of native stone implements collected at McDonnell Bay, S.A. 
J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S., exhibited a fungus obtained by Mr. A. 
Molineux in the mallee scrub of Victoria near the 8.A. boundary. 
It apparently belonged to the genus Strombilomyces. It was 
remarkable for having a large conical base largely made up of 
mineral matter. The stem and pileus were of a woody hardness. 
Also specimens of Pyrameis cardui from Europe, India, Calli- 
fornia, and South Australia, which were almost identical in ap- 
pearance. W. H. Seiway showed a specimen of Alectoria superba 
(Brunner) from the Far North of South Australia. This was the 
third specimen collected in South Australia. 
Papers.—‘ Remarks on 8.A. Rhopalocera,” by OswALp Lower, 
F, Ent. 8. “New Australian Heterocera,” by OswaLtp Lower, 
F. Ent. 8. “ Descriptions of New Coleoptera,” by Rev. THomas 
Biacksurn, B.A. ‘The Myology of Wotoryctes, with Compara- 
tive Notes,” by Prof. Witson, M.D. “Supplementary Note on 
the Osteology of MWotoryctes,” by E. L. Srirurne, .M.D., F.R.S. 
“On the Occurrence of the Fissurellid genus Zidora in Aus- 
tralian Waters,” by Prof. R. Tate. 
ORDINARY MEETING, JUNE 5, 1894. 
Rev. THomas Briacksurn, B.A. (Vice-President), in the chair. 
Exuisits.—D. J. Apcock exhibited «fossils and casts of large 
species of Z'urbo, T'rochus, Voluta, Conus, and, probably, Natica, 
from a limestone formation at Tickera Bay, Yorke Peninsula. 
J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S., showed specimens of a primary rock 
formation on the Lower Sturt River to the east of the South 
Road. 
Papers.—‘ Classification of Igneous Rocks,” by CHARLES 
Cuewines, Ph. D. ‘Notes on the Sedimentary Rocks in the 
McDonnell and James Ranges,” by CHARLES CHEwINGs, Ph. D. 
ORDINARY MEETING, JuLY 3, 1894. 
Maurice Hotrze, F.L.S. (Vice-President), in the chair. 
ExHIsBits.—CHARLES CuHEwINGs, Ph. D., exhibited rock speci- 
mens from Toy’s Reef, Mount Pleasant. He stated that the 
dyke belonged to the pegmatitic series of dyke formations, not 
having the structure of an injected plastic mass of granite. Some 
