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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



|{oj3d §ocictD of (§auth ^wstralia, 



For 1889-90. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 5, 1889. 



Dr. Stirling in the chair. 



Exhibits. — J. G-. O. Tepper, F.L.S., exhibited from Central 

 Australia, (a) the fruit of a G^^eviUea tree, said to be that of the 

 ^' blood-wood tree ;" (h) a black substance from the floors of certain 

 caves, supposed to be excremantitious matter ; (c) a piece of 

 white, light substance, from a quarry near Mount Sonder, which 

 had much the appearance of a stearate of lime ; (d) piece of 

 quartz-crystals and haematite from Mount Sonder ; (e) speci- 

 mens of honey ants ; (f) nest and tunnels of certain ants ap- 

 parently made in the resinous exudations of a species of Triodia, 

 together wdth sample of surrounding sand. 



G. Goyder, Jun., exhibited from Mount Ogilvie specimens of 

 Gersdorfitte, or arsenical nickel ore ; Annabergite, the same 

 oxidised ; Smcdtite, or arsenical cobalt ore ; and from near Blin- 

 man, Erythrite, or arsenical cobalt ore oxidised, and a specimen 

 of Graphite and Sulphur. 



A. ZiETZ exhibited a collection of native w eapons from Cooper's 

 Creek, showing elaborate carving ; also portions of a skull of an 

 extinct marsupial, TJiylacoleo, or Australian pouched lion, which 

 had been found in excavating a dam at Yam Creek, Bundaree, 

 embedded in red clay and associated with the bones of a Diproto- 

 don and a yet not identified species of kangaroo. The bones of 

 the Dip)rotodon were as follows : — Base and anterior portion of 

 one skull, two scapulae, half of a pelvis, a number of vertebra^, of 

 which one, the atlas, was very well preserved, and portions of 

 ribs. All the above fragments apparently belonged to one animal. 



Papers.—" Soaring of the Hawk," by T. W. Kirk, F.R.M.S.; 

 *' Additional List of S. A. Polyzoa," by Dr. McGillivray, Corres- 

 ponding Member. 



D. B. Adamson stated that he had observed no alteration in 

 the shape and position of the craters of the moon. 



