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Annual Meeting, October 7, 1890. 



Dr. Stirling in the chair. 



Auditor. — D. J. Adcock was proposed and unanimously 

 elected to audit the accounts of the past year. 



Exhibits. — Prof. Tate, F.G.S., showed a species of land snail, 

 Helix ericetoruin, common to and inhabiting open uplands in 

 England, from Southern Yorke Peninsula, where it is found 

 plentifully in life. 



W. HowcHiN, F.G.S. , exhibited a cylindrical stone from the 

 eastern flanks of the Mount Lofty Range, that simulated closely 

 the arenaceous casts of the coal measure-plants, particularly 

 le^Didodendron. 



A. Zietz showed two specimens of a large insectivorous bat, 

 about two feet in diameter, from a cave near Alice Springs, for- 

 warded by Inspector Besley. The genus Megaderma has not 

 been previously observed as occurring in Australia. The largest 

 species hitherto known, Molossus australis, is only one foot in 

 diameter. Also, a live specimen of a beautifully marked small 

 poisonous snake, Vermicilla Bertholdi, from Central Australia. 

 Also a specimen of Fhijllopteryx eques, with the ova attached to 

 the belly. 



Tlie annual report and balance-sheet of the Society were read 

 and adopted. 



The annual reports and balance-sheets of the Field Naturalists' 

 and Micros jopical Sections were accepted. 



The Council for the ensuing year was elected as follows : — 

 President, Rev. Thomas Blackburn, B.A. ; Vice-Presidents, Prof. 

 Tate, F.G.S., and W. Howchin, F.G.S. ; Hon. Treasurer, AValter 

 Rutt, C.E. ; Hon. Secretary, W. L. Cleland, M.B. : Members of 

 Council, Prof. Bragg, M.A., Prof. Rennie, D.Sc, E. L. Stirling, 

 M.D., H. T. Whittell, M.D., D. B. Adamson, and Samuel Dixon. 



The President (Dr. Stirling) then A'acated the chair in favour 

 of the President-elect (Rev. Thos. Blackburn, B.A.), and read 

 an address " On Weissman's Theory of Heredity." 



It was carried unanimously that the address be printed. 



Papers. — "Coleoptera of Australia, Pt. lY.," by Rev. Thos, 

 Blackburn, B.A. " Supplemental Notes of the Flora of Central 

 Australia," by Baron F. v. Mueller. " On the Geological 

 Structure of the Adelaide Plains, with especial reference to the 

 Croydon Bore," by Prof. Tate, F.G.S. " Gasteropods of the 

 Older Tertiary of Australia, Part III.," by Prof. Tate, F.G.S. 



