XXXIV. 



Professor Tate as having been offered to the Museum for £8, 

 that no such offer had been made to the Governors. 



Canon Fake, rose to supplement the observations made by the 

 previous speaker, but was checked by the President after 

 making a few remarks, in which he stated that the space avail- 

 able in the first section of the new building would be 70 x 40 

 feet, with a gallery 156 feet long, giving a total area of 4,672 

 feet. 



Dr. Magarey characterised the discussion as irregular and 

 against the rules. He said that it was undignified for four of 

 the Governors to take up the time of the meeting in attacking 

 the President. The Philosophical Society was not bound by 

 the opinions and utterances of its President. He thought the 

 Professor's remarks would do more good for the Museum than 

 anything the Governors had ever done, and that they might 

 justly claim him as being on their side. 



Professor Tate said he had allowed the discussion to proceed, 

 although very irregular, because if he had checked it it might 

 have been thought that he was desirous of escaping any censure 

 which might be considered to be levelled at him. 



After a few further remarks the discussion closed. 



In the absence of the Hon. Secretary, Mr. Tiros. D. Smeaton 

 read "A Census of South Australian Insects. Part II." By 

 J. G. O. Tepper (see page 33). 



Professor Tate read a paper on " The Newer Tertiaries of 

 Munno Para, and the "Water-bearing Capabilities of the 

 Adelaide Plains." By Gavin D. Scoular (see p. 60). 



The following papers were taken as read : — 



" Recent and Fossil Species of Australian Salenariadse." By 

 J. E. T. Woods.* 



" Zoologica et Palaeontologica Miscellanea." By Prof. R. 

 Tate. (See page 129.) 



" Note on the Artificial Formation of Atacamite." By J. T. 

 Cloud. (See page 80.) 



Annual Meeting, October 7, 1879. 



Professor R. Tate, F.G.S., President, in the chair. 



The Ho>~. Seceetaey laid upon the table — " South Australian 

 Aboriginal Folk-lore," from the MSS. of the late Rev. G. 

 Taplin, published by the Government of South Australia ; 

 "Meteorological Observations of the Summer, Winter, and 

 Spring of 1878-9, taken in England," by C. L. Wragge, F.R.G.S. 



Professor Tate read his President's annual address on " Out- 

 lines of South Australian Geology." (See page xxxix.) 



* The publication of this paper is unavoidably postponed. 



