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passed into chrysalis stage February 13, 1889, whence tlie imago 

 emerged February 25 of same year. 



AV. Howcriix, F.G.S., exliibited a number of water-worn 

 pebbles from a thick bed of conglomerate in the Barossa Range, 

 three miles east of Williamstown, included in highly altered mica 

 and hornblende schists and feldspathic grits, tilted to an angle of 

 75°; the beds are several hundred feet thick and the pebbles are 

 mainly quartz and feldspathic grit ; the pebbles possessing an 

 argillaceous constituent were affected by the metamorphic action 

 in a similar way to the argillaceous matrix. 



Rev. Thos. Blackburn, B.A., showed specimens of Pele's hair 

 and volcanic products collected by him from the crater of Kilauea, 

 Hawaii. 



Papers. — " Additions to S.A. Coleoptera," by Rev. Thos. 

 Blackburx, B.A. ; " Fossil Remains of Australian Mammals,'' 

 by A. ZiETZ. 



Ordinary Meeting, June 3, 1890. 



Dr. Stirling in the chair. 



Paper. — '' Cremation," by Dr. Wylde. 



Motion. — After a discussion, the following motion was carried : 

 — '" That the Society is strongly of the opinion that the jDreseiit 

 mode of disposal of the dead by earth burial is fraught with danger 

 to the health of the community, and it recommends that cremation 

 be permitted by law." 



Ordinary Meeting, July 1, 1890. 



Dr. Stirling m the chair. 



Ballot. — Capt. Anstruther Thompson was elected a Fellow. 



Motion. — It was proposed by Prof. Tate, F.G.S., and seconded 

 by S. Dixon — " That the Society desires to draw^ the attention of 

 the Royal Society of New South Wales to the vast economic and 

 scientific advantages to Australia by a Geological Surveyor being- 

 stationed at Broken Hill ; and respectfully request that that 

 Society will bring the subject under the consideration of the Kew 

 South Wales Government." 



The motion was carried with the proviso that Professors Tate 

 and Rennie prepare a draft letter to the above eft'ect. 



Exhibits. — W. Howchin, F.G.S., exhibited the skulls of two 

 aboriginals. One of these was a well-preserved skull of a woman 

 of the extinct Adelaide tribe, the remains having been exhumed 

 from the sandhills near Plympton. The skull showed a deep in- 

 dentation in front, as though from a blow by a waddy. As the 

 remainder of the skeleton was said to have been marked by 



