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quartz from Woodside, taken from workings recently com- 

 menced there. 



Master A. C. Molineux exhibited some freshwater shells ; 

 Mr. 0. Tepper graphic granite and flowering branch of 

 Melaleuca u adnata ; Mr. Chandler flowering plants from 

 Central Australia, and rock specimens and fossils from about 

 the Peak ; and Mrs. Richards flowering plants from the Great 

 Australian Bight. (For particulars of the above see Miscel- 

 laneous Contributions.) 



The following communication was read: — "Further Notes 

 on Australian Salenariadae." By the Rev. J. E. T.Woods, F.L.S., 

 Hon. Memb. By consent of the Council this paper is incor- 

 porated with the author's first contribution, the publication of 

 which was postponed last year. (See p. 1.) 



Ordinari* Meeting-, June 1, 1880. 

 Professor Ralph Tate, F.Cr.S., President, in the Chair. 

 The list of donations to the Library was read. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Professor Tate exhibited a skull of a wombat, obtained at 

 the Willows during the construction of the deep drainage 

 works, from the red loamy clays so characteristic of the Adelaide 

 Plain. Skulls of the recent species of the Murray Plain and 

 of the Great Australian Bight were shown for comparison, and 

 though the fossil presents a greater resemblance to the latter, 

 yet it is markedly distinct. In the absence of other materials 

 for comparison, Professor Tate would not assign to it a specific 

 name. In speaking on the subject, he remarked that our 

 Public Library was very deficient in the literature of Aus- 

 tralian zoology, and especially of this colony. Professor 

 Owen's classic work on the Extinct Marsupials of Australia 

 was an important desideratum. 



Mr. F. G. Waterhoi t se, C.M.Z.S., showed a number of 

 saurians, portion of a large collection of reptilia, lately 

 received by the Governors of the South Australian Institute 

 from the Paris Museum ; also the snout of a large sawfish, the 

 skin of a remarkably large brown snake, from Hindmarsh 

 Island, measuring eight feet in length ; and some rough Bra- 

 zilian diamonds. 



Professor Tate exhibited specimens of South Australian 

 granites, showing inclusions. He said those from Port Elliot 

 and Victor Harbour contain inclusions of a schistose character, 

 which can only be regarded as fragments of extraneous rocks 

 which have been caught up by the erupted granite and enclosed 

 within its mass. The granite from Palmer and Mannum con- 



