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by tliem. (In consequence of the time required to print copies 

 of tlie negatives of these photographs, the Council have decided 

 to postpone the publication of this paper in the Transactions 

 until next session). 



Oedixaey Meetixg, September 6, 1881. 



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

 Mr. E. P. Nesbit, Jun., was elected to audit the accounts. 



XOTES AXD EXHIBITS. 



Mr. ¥. a. Waterhoiise, C.M.Z.S., Curator, on behalf of the 

 Governors of the South Australian Institute Museum, exhibited 

 specimens of natural history and ethnological specimens lately 

 collected at Cooper's Creek by Mr. E. B. Sanger, and b}' him 

 presented to the South Australian Institute Museum. The 

 natural history specimens comprise: — Grammatophora ma- 

 culata, and G. ornata, two very handsomely marked and 

 coloured species of lizards ; Crustacea, including a very curious 

 species of freshwater crab; a species of shield shrimp (Apus), 

 very small, and with a circular shell, and specimens of a Cypris, 

 as large as a grain of rice, of a rich brown colour, the two 

 shells looking much like those of a mussel. The ethnological 

 specimens comprised a fishing-net made from fibre of a rush, 

 and called by the natives " Pillee ; " an aboriginal garment 

 known by them as Anpah, being a twined fringe made of 

 opossum or wallaby fur, worn suspended as a kilt or girdle ; 

 another similar garment, known has Oolpooroo, made of twine 

 twisted from human hair. A necklace made from short pieces 

 of grass stems, and known as Culta-culta ; a net for the hair, 

 made from grass fibre, and called "Wanoo ; a bone from an emu, 

 used for piercing the cartilage of the nose, and called "Wana- 

 parya ; a portion of bone from the wing of a pelican, called 

 Padamookoo, used as an ornament in the nose ; and a piece of 

 hornstone or chert, used in the rite of circumcision. The 

 nets, &c., were dyed in two colours, red and yellov/. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Mineralogical and Chemical Notes from the Laboratory 

 of the AVallaroo Smelting Works," by Mr. T. C. Cloud, E.C.S. 



2. " Geo2;raphical Eelations of the Pulmoniferous Mollusca 

 of Victoria/' by Prof. E. Tate, E.G.S. 



3. "Descriptions of New Species of Australian Mollusca," 

 by Prof. E. Tate, E.G.S. (The publication of this paper is un- 

 avoidably postponed.) 



