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ance, and t"he blood seemed to come out like a perspiration 

 whilst the sharks were dying. 



The Hon. Seceetart stated that Mr. W. L. AVragge, one of 

 the members, had received the gold medal of the Scottish 

 Meteorological Society for a valuable series of observations 

 taken during several months on Ben Nevis, Mr. AYragge taking 

 the higher station, and Mrs. AYragge recording at the lower 

 one at Port William. 



The paper upon " Diurnal Lepidoptera of Balhannah Dis- 

 trict," being almost purely technical, was taken as read, Pro- 

 fessor Tate giving a brief resume of its contents ; and the 

 same course was adopted with Mr. J. G. O. Tepper's paper 

 upon " Some South Australian Lizards." 



Ordinary Meeting, Juxe 13, 1882. 



Mr. D. B. Ada^isox in the chair. 



The donations to the Library since last meeting were laid 

 upon the table. 



Dr. H. Whittell, Messrs. E. B. Eobin, T. AY. Harris, G-. E. 

 Parrar, J. AY. Tyas, and P. AY. Davis were elected Pellows, 

 and Mr. Maurice Holtze, Curator of the Botanic Garden, 

 Palmerston, was elected a Corresponding Member. 



HOXET-BEARIXG AXTS. 



Professor Tate directed attention to some samples of honey- 

 bearing ants, similar to some submitted to the Society on two 

 previous occasions. They were the remarkable honey-bearing 

 ants which had been described by Sir John Lubbock as coming 

 from Adelaide, but it was now known where they were really 

 to be found. The locality was Barrow's Creek. One of the 

 Society's Corresponding Members (Mr. Chandler) had sent 

 down specimens of the ant {Campotropus inflatus) from Barrow's 

 Creek, and another species collected by Mr. Michael May. 



Mr. Smeatox remarked that although the Mexican honey- 

 bearing ant fed the other varieties of its species while it lived, 

 yet when it died they made no attempt to open the abdomen, 

 where the honey was secreted. 



Professor Tate exhibited a small orchid forwarded by Mrs. 

 Eichaids of Powler's Bay. It was a Tasmanian specimen 

 {^terodylis onutica), the westerly distribution of which had 

 now been extended several hundred miles. 



The Secretary exhibited a specimen of quartz crystal from 

 the roof of the bed rock at Inglewood, A^ictoria, at a depth of 

 80 feet from the surface. It seemed to have included in it 

 what appeared to be tufts of grass. 



Professor Tate thought the appearance was due to radial 

 fracture. 



