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Special Meeting, October 7, 1902. 



Professor E. H. Rennie, D.Sc. (President) in the chair. 

 The proposed rules* for the Royal Society of South Australia 

 (Incorporated) having been read over, the following notice 

 of motion was drawn out and signed : ''We, the undersigned, 

 Fellows of the Royal Society of South Australia, hereby give 

 notice that the rules hereto attached be the rules of the Royal 

 Society of South Australia (Incorporated). 



(Signed) Sam. Dixon. 



Edwin Ashby. 

 Walter Rutt. 



A. ZlETZ. 



[* For copy of Rules see page 345.] A. M. Morgan. 



Annual Meeting, October 21, 1902. 



Professor E. H. Rennie, D.Sc. (President) in the chair. 



Exhibits. — W. H. Selway, a cephalopod in embryo stage. 



The annual report and balance-sheet were read and adopted. 



Election of Council. — President, Professor E. H. Rennie^ 

 D.Sc, &c. ; Vice-Presidents, Rev. Thos. Blackburn, B.A., and 

 Walter Howchin, F.G.S. ; Hon. Ti'easurer, Walter Rutt, 

 C.E. ; Hon. Secretary, George G. Mayo, C.E. 



Members of Council. — W. L. Cleland, M.B., Professor E. 

 C. Stirling, C.M.G., F.R.S., &c., Samuel Dixon, W. B. Poole, 

 Edwin Ashby, W. H. Selway. 



New Rules. — ^The rules of the Royal Society of South Aus- 

 tralia (Incorporated) were read by the Secretary and passed, 

 subject to correction of Rule No. 5 and alteration of Rule No. 

 42, in which two Auditors were substituted for one Auditor. 



Nomination. — ^William John Yandenbergh. J.P., Solicitor 

 and Bannister, as a Fellow. 



Papers. — "Descriptions of New Corals of the Tertiaries of 

 Australia (Part V.)," by John Dennant, F.G.S. "Further 

 Notes on the Australian Coleoptera," by Rev. Thos. Black- 

 burn, B.A. "List of Fish of the Lower Murray,'' by A. H. 

 C. ZiETz, F.L.S., C.M.Z.S., &c. "List of the Described 

 Genera and Species of the Aiistralian and Polynesian Phas- 

 midce with Introductory Remarks,' by J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S. 



President's Address. — "Some Modern Developments of 

 Chemistry." A vote of thanks to the President for his 

 interesting and instructive aiddress was passed. 



Apologies were received from the Hon. Treasurer and Audi- 

 tor, and a letter from Mr. F. M. Bailey, expressing his deep- 

 felt thanks to the Society for the kind sympathy they had 

 shown him in his scientific work. 



