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stick was shown, which the lecturer had found in the quarry, 
and had been used by the natives to prise up the flints from 
their bed. It had evidently been left by the last workers. 
The hil on which the quarry was situated, and which was 
covered with countless numbers of chippings, was near Pid- 
leeomina Waterhole, thirty miles south-west from Stuart’s 
Creek Station. Mr. Howchin also exhibited a number of 
large and roughly made stone implements, stained red, which 
he had obtained from the table top country. These imple- 
ments were unlike those now used by the natives or com- 
monly met with on the lower ground and sandhills of the 
country, and might possibly have belonged to an older race 
now extinct. 
ORDINARY MEETING, AUGUST 2, 1904. 
JOSEPH C. Verco, M.D., F.R.C.S. (President), in the 
chair. 
IXHIBITS-—A. H. C. Zintz. F.L.S., Assistant Director of 
the Museum, exhibited a fungus (Polyphorus туба), found 
about three feet under ground, in wet, sandy soil, near gum 
trees, at Myponga. This fungus was formerly eaten by the 
natives. It grows to about the size of a football, and has 
the appearance of a large potato. It is found in New South 
Wales and Tasmania, but has not previously been recorded 
from South Australia. Mr. ZrgTZ also exhibited a number of 
well-known birds from both northern and southern Australia, 
and two hybrids, one between Platycercus barnardi and P. 
flaveolous, from the Wirrabara Forest, and the other between 
Geopelia tranquilla and ©. striata, bred in captivity. 
PAPER.— “South Australian Marine Mollusca,” by J. С. 
Virco, MID. B.R.US. 
ORDINARY MEETING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1904. 
JOSEPH C. Verco, M.D., F.R.C.S. (President), in the 
chair. 
Bartor.—William Christie, of Adelaide, was elected a 
Fellow. 
ExuiBITS.—O. B. Lower, F.E.S. (Lond.), a pseudomorph 
cast of a shell (natica), in opal, from White Cliffs. W. How- 
CHIN, F.G.S., a number of rock specimens to illustrate his 
paper. 
PAPERS.— “On the Alpha Rays of Radium," by Professor 
W. Н. Brace, М.А. “Geology of the Mount Lofty Ranges: 
Part i, The Coastal District," by W. Howcurx,, F.G.S. 
ANNUAL MEETING, OCTOBER 4, 1904. 
J. C. Verdo, M.D., F.R.C.S. (President), in the chair. 
The Annual Report and Balance-sheet were adopted 
ELECTION or OFFICERS.—J. C. Verco, M.D., F.R.C.S., as 
President; Professor E. H. Rennie, D.Sc., F.C.S., and Rev 
