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the Botanical Gardens, Melbourne, near the Yarra. This 

 pond has been filled up, and there appears to be no record 

 of its having been found since. In South Australia Gorchj- 

 loyliora is plentiful. I have taken it from the Patawalonga 

 Creek in both brackish-water and fresh-water ; Lake Alexan- 

 drina; the Murray, at Murray Bridge; Mannum ; and the 

 Hope Valley Reservoir." Mr. Baker stated that he had found 

 this hydroid in saturated saline ponds in the Patawalonga 

 Creek. 



Ordinary Meeting, September 7, 1909. 



The President (J. C. Verco, M.D., F.R.C.S.) in the 

 chair. 



Exhibits.— Mr. J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S., the branch 

 of an artistically-dwarfed plant brought from Japan; Mr. 

 D. Mawson, B.Sc, B.E., a new mineral from the Central 

 Mine, Broken Hill, consisting of zinc-blende and galena: a 

 number of pebbles from gem-bearing gravels, Williamstown. 

 The gold associated with these gems had been removed. 

 What remained was mostly rutile (an oxide of titanium). 

 Other gems found in these gravels are beryl, topaz, corun- 

 dum, tourmaline, kyaiiite, etc. 



Papers. — "Notes on South Australian Marine Mollusca, 

 with Descriptions of New Species," Part xi., b}^ J. C. Verco, 

 M.D. "Notes on the Gem-bearing Gravels of Barossa," by 

 Douglas Maavson, B.Sc, B.E. 



The Annual Meeting, October 5, 1909. 



The President (J. C. Verco, M.D., F.R.C.S.) in the 

 chair. 



The annual rejDort and balance-sheet were read and con- 

 firmed. 



Election of Officers.— J. C. Verco, M.D., F.R.C.S., 

 was unanimously elected President: Professor E. H. Rennie, 

 M.A., D.Sc, F.C.S., and W. Rutt, C.E., Vice-Presidents; 

 W. B. Poole, Hon. Treasurer: R. H. Pulleine, M.B., 

 B.S., Hon. Secretary: J. S. Lloj^^d and Howard Whit- 

 bread, Auditors : Rev. Canon Blackburn, Edwin Ashb}^, and 

 G. G. Mayo, Members of Council. The retiring Treasurer 

 (Walter Rutt, C.E.), who had held the office for twenty-five 

 years, received a hearty vote of thanks. The retiring Secre- 

 tary was also thanked. 



Exhibits. — Mr. W. Howchin, F.G.S., exhibited photo- 

 graphs of the extinct lake area in Pekina Creek and also a 

 panoramic view of the lake deposits a. mile lower down the 

 creek than the area previously described, and in relation to 

 which it is a new locality, or an extension of the old lake de- 

 posits ; also calcified I'emains of ('liarn in large matted masses, 



