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and tlie other at Uraidla. Also, Pidtanea graveolens from 

 Uraidla, aud 2Iimulus gracilis from near Penola. 



"W. Haacke, Ph.D., gave a description of six new medusae 

 found by him in St. Vincent Gulf. 



Mr. G. GoTDER, jun., gave some particulars respecting the 

 action ef carbonated waters upon iron pipes in the vicinity o£ 

 Gawler. 



Oedij^'abt Meeting, Februaey 5, 1884. 



Prof. Tate, T.G.S., in the chair. 



Ballot. — Messrs. H. St. Munton, D. J. D. Beresford, and 

 J. W. Bussell were elected Pellows. 



Exhibits. — Prof. Tate, E.G.S., showed an abnormal growth 

 of the common Sonchus oleraceus. Mr. C. Todd, C.M.G., ex- 

 hibited and explained an electric water level indicator, and also 

 a miniature Gramme electrical generator. He also made some 

 remarks upon the two comets, Pons-Brook and Ross. 



Mr. AV. E. PiCKELS, E.R.M.S., referriug to the desirability of 

 a Postal Microscopical Exchange Society, moved — " That this 

 meeting recommend to the Council of the Royal Society of 

 South Australia that the Hon. Sec. (W. L. Cleland, M.B.) be 

 requested to co-operate with the Hon. See. (W. E. Pickels, 

 E.R.M.S.) oi: the Field Naturalists' Section in drawing up a 

 circular to be issued to the Eellows of the Society and Mem- 

 bers of the Section, intimating that the Postal Microscopical 

 Society of Victoria proposes to forward slides for examination, 

 and requests slides in return. 



Mr. Paeiss Xesbit having seconded the proposition, it was 

 carried. 



Mr. S. Dixox sent a communication respecting the supposed 

 discovery of coal at Kangaroo Island to the effect that he was 

 positive that it was washed up by the sea either from some 

 vessel or very distant place. 



Mr. Ja:mes Stirltng, I'.L.S., forwarded " Notes upon a Geo- 

 logical Sketch Section of the Australian Alps.*' In 1867 he 

 spent a long time on the southern portion of AV'cstern Australia 

 searching for coal, and found it in every instance undoubtedly 

 brought there by the sea, as the whole coast between Cape And 

 and Doubtful Island Bay was miocene resting on granite and 

 micaceous schists. He had been induced to make the expedi- 

 tion owing to the late Mr. Roe, Surveyor-General of Western 

 Australia, reporting the existence of coal on the Fitzgerald 

 River, and it was thought some connection might exist between 

 the known occurrence of the bitumen and the reported beds of 

 coal ; but the supposed coal was nothing but a thin bed o£ 

 brown lignite. 



