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amend the Rules and By-laws. The President (R. H. PuUeine, M.B.) in the 

 chair. After discussion, the recommendations of the Council were approved. 



Ordinary Meeting, September 13, 1923. 



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



Elections.— J. F. Thomas and H. K. Fry, D.S.O., M.D., B.S., B.Sc, 

 were elected as Fellows. 



Donation was received from Mr. J. Greenlees of an album of 100 photo- 

 graphs of glacial phenomena in South Australia taken by himself and other 

 gentlemen, for which he was heartily thanked. 



Papers. — "On the Zonation of the Vegetation in Port Wakefield District, 

 with special reference to the Sahnity of the Soil," by Professor T. G. B. Osborn, 

 D.Sc, and J. G. Wood, B.Sc. ; "Transpiration in the Field of some Plants from 

 the arid portions of South Australia, with Notes on their Physiological 

 Anatomy," by J. G. Wood, B.Sc; "The Gem Sands of Encounter Bay," by 

 R. G. Thomas; "A Geological Sketch-Section of the Sea-cliffs on the Eastern 

 side of Gulf St. Vincent, from Brighton to Sellick's Hill, with Descriptions," 

 by Professor Walter Howchin, F.G.S. 



Exhibits. — Mr. A. M. Lea exhibited a collection of insects lately made 

 by Professor F. Wood Jones at Stuart Range, including some wingless grass- 

 hoppers and others greatly resembling the stones amongst which they are found ; 

 a cockchafer beetle previously known only from Western Australia, and a fly 

 that lives amongst the feathers of birds. Mr. N. B. Tindale showed a small 

 collection of butterflies made in the Finisterre Mountains and at Finschhaven, 

 New Guinea, by Mr. S. Lehner, including the rare males of Troides goliath and 

 T. paradisea, known as "Butterflies of Paradise" from their extreme size and 

 beauty. Mr. E. R. Waite exhibited some specimens recently received at the 

 Museum, including articles from Thibet presented by Mrs. T. K. Hamilton. 

 Human skulls are largely used by the Thibetans in ceremonial observances. A 

 tambourine shown was composed of two skull caps fastened together at their 

 vertices, the open ends being covered with membrane. Two trumpets made 

 of human thigh bones were shown, those of criminals or of men who have 

 died a violent death being preferred. They had each two expiratory orifices 

 styled "the nostrils of the horse," a mythical animal believed to carry the 

 faithful to Paradise. The sound of the trumpet reminds the people of the 

 neighing of the horse. 



Annual Meeting, October 11, 1923. 



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



Election. — Professor A. Strong, M.A., D.Litt., was elected a Fellow. 



The Annual Report and Financial Statement were read and adopted. 



Papers laid on the Table. — "Additions to the Flora of South Australia : 

 No. 21," by J. M. Black; "Geological Features of the neighbourhood of 

 Blackfellow's Creek, Mount Lofty Ranges," by Sir Douglas Mawson, D.Sc, 

 B.E., F.R.S.; "Notes on Igneous Rocks of the Mount Painter Belt, 

 Flinders Range," by Sir Douglas Mawson ; "Flora and Fauna of Nuyts 

 Archipelago and the Investigator Group: No. 11, The Coleoptera of Pearson 

 Island," by A. M. Lea, F.E.S. ; "No. 12. The Stomach Contents of Pearson 

 Island Birds," by A. M. Lea; "No. 13. The Orthoptera," by N. B. Tindale; 

 "No. 14, The Basidiomycetous Fungi of Pearson Island," by Professor J. B. 

 Cleland, M.D. ; "Australian Rhopalocera," by N. B. Tindale; "Distribution 

 of Australian Orchids," and "Contributions to the Orchidaceous Flora of Aus- 

 tralia," by R. S. Rogers, M.A., M.D. ; "On some Halophytic and Non-Halophytic 

 Plant Communities in xA.rid South Australia," bv Professor T. G. B. Osborn,. 

 D.Sc, and J. G. Wood, B.Sc. 



