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of Scopelus, showing the lateral luminous organs. Walter 

 HowcHiN, F.G.S., exhibited some Foraminifera that were rock- 

 builders. One sample, Orhitoides Mantelli, was from the Eocene- 

 beds of Victoria. O. B. Lower forwarded a specimen of the 

 leaf-butterHy from the Khasia Hills, India. 



Notifications. — Prof. Tate referred to a recent visit to the 

 glaciated surface at Hallett's Cove wath Mr. Robert Jack, 

 Government Geologist for Queensland, who, after examination of 

 the surface, concluded that the ice had travelled northward. 

 A. ZiETZ drew attention to the occurrence of Perameles 

 Gunnii (the soft-furred bandicoot) in South Australia. The 

 specimens were obtained by Mr. Scriven, near Border Town. 

 The habitats previously given of the marsupial were Tasmania 

 and Victoria, on the authority of Mr. Oldlield Thomas, of the 

 British Museum. Mr. Zietz referred to an evident misprint in 

 the Catalogue-description, which should read " tail only dark 

 above its base for one inch." 



Papers. — " Habits and Customs of the Aborigines about the 

 R. Finke, Central Australia," by Rev. Louis Schulze. " Descrip- 

 tion of New Coleoptera," by Rev. Thomas Blackburn, B.A. 



Ordinary Meeting, May 5, 189L 



Rev. Thomas Blackburn, B.A. (President), in the chair. 



Motton.^ — It was moved and carried—" That in the opinion 

 of the Society, it is highly expedient that the Director of the 

 Botanic Gardens, Adelaide, should be a botanist of high standing 

 and attainments." It w^as also decided that the Chief Secretary 

 be interviewed on the subject. 



Exhibits. — Prof. Tate, F.G.S., showed coloured photographs 

 of glaciers. Also a collection of rare species of Cyprcea from 

 Eocene strata of South Australia and Victoria. A. Zietz, 

 Assistant-Director of the S.A. Museum, exhibited a large 

 collection of weapons, charms, ttc, used by the aborigines of 

 Finke River district. Charles Chewings, F.R.G.S., showed 

 rock-specimens and fossils from the southern flanks of the 

 MacDonnell Ranges. The fossils were in an excellent state 

 of preservation, and comprised, amongst others, an Orthoceras, 

 a Baphistoma, one or more species of LeptcBna, and the tail of a 

 large trilobite (Fhacops, sp. ?). The facies was that of an Upper 

 Silurian fauna. 



Paper.- — An abstract was read from Mr. Schulze's paper sub- 

 mitted at the last meeting. 



