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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



PoR 1881-82. 



OiiDiisrART Meeting, jS'ov. 1, 1881. 

 His Honor Chief Justice AVay, President, in the chair. 



Donations to Library during past month laid upon the table. 



Chas. van Lear Plorence, Clarendon ; Maurice Salom, Ade- 

 laide, and William Henry Tietkins, F.E.G.S., Adelaide, were 

 elected Fellows; and T. C. Cloud, F.C.S., Wallaroo, and J. 

 Chandler, Peake, as Corresponding Members. 



Mr. P. G. Waterhonse, Curator o£ the Institute Museum, sent 

 some eccentric forms of Starfishes* found by ATr. A. Molineux 

 at Port Vincent and the North Arm. Also, some English 

 humble bees and their nests, imported by Dr. Mayo, but which 

 had unfortunately died on the voyage out, this being the second 

 unsuccessful attempt made by Dr. Mayo to introduce them into 

 the colony. 



Mr. F. S. Ceawford exhibited examples of two species of 

 Coccida?, one living in great numbers on a Kangaroo Island 

 Acacia hedge at Norwood, the other on the young gum trees 

 growing along the banks of the Piver Torrens at Adelaide. 

 They are peculiar in possessing one pair of small e3''es, widely 

 separated on the upper part of the head, and a second and 

 large pair on the underside ; the eyes in both pairs are simple 

 and not multiple in structure. 



Mr. J. C. B. MoxcRiEFF forwarded for exhibition a fragment 

 of a lower jaw of Dijjrofodon, one of the large extinct mar- 

 supials, found nine feet below the surface in a bed of gravel 

 which crosses Section 381, Hundred of Yatala, the site of the 

 new railway carriage sho])s. 



Mr. Tepi'ER exhibited the head of a large trilobite found by 

 him in tlie Ardrossan limestone. 



Professor Tate exhibited specimens of the phant species 

 Quiiietia Urvillei, not previously known to occur in this colony, 



tliough common in West Australia. 



*NoTE. — Astero(jonium (Tosia) australe, Gray (R.Tate. 



