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illaess aaid death this had not been done. "A Revision of 

 Australian Hesperiadse/' by Edward Meyrick, B.A., F.Z.S.,, 

 and Oswald Lower, F.E.S., Lond. This patper was intro- 

 duced by Mr. J. G. 0. Tepper, F.L.S., who exhibited some 

 specimens of this family of butterflies, which are commonly 

 known as "Skippers,'' because of their short, jerky flight. A. 

 H. C. ZiETz, F.L.S., exhibited eggs of the No-rthern Territory 

 JJower bird, very rare, and of the Ewings Fruit Pigeon. He also 

 exhibited the skin of a large Rufus Owl, probably a New 

 Guinea species, and a skin of the Rainbow Pitta, and a very 

 uncommon egg, that of the Drongo Shrike. Mr. R. Flem- 

 ing exhibited a fine specimen of fresh water sponge, which 

 Mr. Zietz stated was a species of Spongilla. Mr. Zietz 

 exhibited a very interesting collection of bird skins and eggs 

 collected by Mr. C. E. May in the neighborhood of Port 

 Darwin, and presented by him to the Museum. Mr. J. G. O. 

 Tepper, F.L.S. , exhibited a piece of limestone from Manna- 

 hill forwarded by Mounted-Constable Waterhouse, of Crystal 

 Brook, who supposed the markings on it to have been done 

 by aborigines. Mr. Tepper explained that these were due 

 Xo the action of certain algas and lichens. The Secretary 

 was instructed to write to Mr. Waterhouse and ask him to 

 protect ainy native etchings he might any time know of from 

 being disfigured. Walter Howchin, F.G.S., through the 

 kindness of Mr. Zietz, Assistant Director of the Museum, exhi- 

 bited some of the bone breccias from The Brothers Islands, 

 Cofiins Bay. Mr. Howchin described the conditions under 

 which the deposits were probably formed, and mentioned that 

 -the determination of the fossil bones was not complete, but 

 bones of large extinct kangaroos and emus, together with the 

 ■cranium of a seal, the jaiws of a wallaby, and bones of small 

 marsupials, indeterminable, were known to occur. At the time 

 of the deposition of these bones The Brothers Islands must have 

 formed part of the mainland. Mr. Howchin also showed 

 a lump of limestone from Port Lincoln forwarded by Mr. 

 E. R. Bartlett, containing a bone determined by Professor 

 Stirling to be the femur of a wombat. The matrix consisted 

 •of two classes of rock, the lower a granular foraminiferal lime- 

 stone of uncertain age, and the other an upper crust of super- 

 ficial travertine, in which the sub-fossil, with other simaller 

 bones, was contained. Mr. Sam. Dixon's notice of motion 

 of incorporation of this Society was read by the acting sec- 

 retary, Mr. Edwin Ashby. 



A vote of thanks was passed to those exhibiting specimens 

 .and giving papei-s. 



