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Captain Pascoe, R.N. (President), was deputed to interview the 

 Melbourne delegates to the Sydney Federal Convention. Will 

 you take immediate stejDS and urge your representatives to give 

 cordial support to the movement ?" It was moved and decided 

 to give the movement the hearty and moral support of the 

 Society, and to telegraph to the Premier (Hon. Thomas Playford), 

 requesting him to recommend the matter for the consideration of 

 the Federal Council. 



Exhibits. — J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S., laid on the table two old 

 and rare books — (a) "Philosophic Transactions of the Royal 

 Society, London," 1684; (h) Swartz's " Observationis Botanical," 

 1791. Also some red earth from Roebuck Bay, Western Aus- 

 tralia, eaten by the natives there, not from necessity, but as an 

 article of their diet. Also the fruits of Citrus australasica, from 

 Cooper's Creek, and Capjxiris MitcheUi. Also several insects, 

 e.g., a wasp with a spider it had caught, forwarded by Mr. 

 Stacey ; a specimen of Perga affinis and its larva? ; and a 

 nocturnal moth with its underground cell, in which the pupa was 

 lodged. A. ZiETZ, Assistant-Director of the Museum, exhibited 

 some snakes from Central Australia, forwarded by Rev. H. Kempe 

 (Correspond. Memb.), viz. : — Skin of an enormous poisonous 

 snake, nine feet in length, belonging to the genus Tropidechys, 

 sp. nov. ; a specimen of the genus Hojylocephalus, sp. nov. ; and 

 specimens of Furina Ramsayi and Vermicella Bertholdi. Also, 

 a species of perch from the R. Finke ; and a sample of white 

 chalky earth. 



Papers. — " Description of Xotoryctes typhlops,'^ by E. L. 

 Stirling, M.D., F.R.C.S. Eng. " Foraminifera of the Older 

 Tertiaries, Part IT. (Kent Town Bore)," by W. HowcniN, F.G.S 



Ordinary Meeting, April 7, 1891. 



Prof. Ralph Tate (Vice-President) in the chair. 



Exhibits. — J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S., showed specimens of 

 Postryclius Jesuitica from Port Pirie district, where it was 

 attacking species of Acacia. Also some rock specimens from 

 the neighbourhood of Lyndoch. J. C. F. Johnson, M.P., 

 forwarded specimens of beetles from Western Australia, some 

 of which Mr. Tepper thought were new. A. Zietz, Assistant- 

 Director of the S.A. Museum, showed specimens of mollusca 

 inhabiting the open sea, e.g., a species of Pteropoda, two 

 species of Heteropoda, and one of Nudibranchiata. Also 

 species of Salpa, Pyrosoma, Porpita, and Diphysiopsis. Of 

 vermes, a species of Sagitta. Also a series of larval stages of the 

 liigher Crustacea. And several species of fish, one being a species 



