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 ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA 

 (Incorporated) 



FOR THE Year November 1, 1922, to October 31, 1923. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 9, 1922. 



The President (R. H. Pulleine, M.B.) in the chair. 



Nominations.- — M. Sprod, M.B., B.S., and R. G. Thomas as Fellows. 



Papers. — "Description of New Australian Lepidoptera," by Oswald B. 

 Lower, F.E.S., F.L.S.; "Australian Staphylinidae (Coleoptera)," by Arthur 

 M. Lea, F.E.S. ; "Australian Fungi : Notes and Descriptions, No. 4," by J. 

 Burton Cleland, M.D., and Edwin Cheel. 



Exhibits. — Professor Walter Howchin, F.G.S., on behalf of Rev. J. C. 

 Jennison, exhibited samples of Asphaltum Glance, discovered in situ at Point 

 Bristow, Elcho Island, on the northern coast of Australia. Rev. J. C. Jennison 

 wrote : "I found quantities of it in situ in the sandstone strata of Point Bristow. 

 There are mudstone strata above the sandstone, then 60 or 70 feet overburden 

 of clay with ironstone capping." Professor T. G. B. Osborn, D.Sc, showed a 

 specimen of Viscimt articidatum, Burm., growing on Acacia linophylla collected 

 at Ooldea in August this year. This is the second time that the plant has been 

 collected in South Australia. It is represented at present in the University 

 Herbarium by a single specimen taken near Cooper's Creek more than twenty- 

 five years ago. Mr. J. F. Bailey exhibited a large green frog from Queensland. 

 Dr. R. H. Pulleine exhibited a large number of aboriginal flint implements 

 obtained from the north-west coast of Tasmania between Rocky Cape and Blufif 

 Point. The mineral represented was Lydite or Lydian Stone. 



Ordinary Meeting, April 12, 1923. 



The President (R. H. Pulleine, M.B.) in the chair. 



Nominations. — James C. Marshall, Florence M. Hill, D.Sc. H. R. 

 Marston, C. J. R. Glover, W. A. Magarey, LL.B., and J. G. Wood, B.Sc. 

 as Fellows. 



Elections. — M. Sprod, M.B., B.S., and R. G. Thomas as Fellows. 



Scientific Handbooks. — The President brought before the notice of the 

 meeting the Scientific Handbooks for South Australia which were being pre- 

 pared by members of the British Science Guild (South Australian Branch), 

 assisted by the Government, the second volume of which, by Professor F. 

 Wood Jones, D.Sc, etc., on the "Mammals of South Australia," was now 

 published. 



Sir Joseph C. Verco wrote resigning his seat on the Council on account of 

 his absence in England for an indefinite period. Resolved — "That the resignation 

 be not accepted, but that leave of absence for six months be granted." 



Notices of the following International Congresses were received: — Pan- 

 Pacific Science Congress, in 1923. August and September, in Melbourne and 

 Sydney; and Geographical and Ethnological Congress, in 1925, in Cairo. 



Professor F. Wood Jones, D.Sc. etc.. gave a progress report of the work 

 done by the Barrier Reef Council, on which he represented this Society. 



