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exhibited a small living snake, recently captured at Brighton. 

 Mr. A. G. Edquist exhibited two ants, one of which he had 

 found carrying the other during a migration from one nest to 

 another. 



Paper. — "South Australian Holothuroidea, with descrip- 

 tions of New Species," by E. C. Joshua and E. Creed (com- 

 municated by Dr. E. C. Stirling, C.M.G., F.G.S.). 



Ordinary Meeting, April 8, 1915. 



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



President's Report. — The President reported the 

 return of the Hon. Treasurer (Mr. W. B. Poole) from his 

 vacation in Europe ; also the publication of the narrative of 

 the expedition of our Fellow, Sir Douglas Mawson, to 

 Antarctica; also the death of Mr. T. R. Scarfe, who, by his 

 anonymous gift of i^l,000 to the Endowment Fund of the 

 Society, had rendered valuable aid to its work ; also his own 

 appointment, as President of this Society, upon the recently 

 constituted Board of Visitors to the Adelaide Observatory. 

 He also drew attention to an album of photographs of South 

 Australian orchids, prepared from drawings by our Hon. 

 Fellow, J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S. 



He then vacated the chair, which was taken by Professor 

 E. H. Rennie, M.A., D.Sc, Vice-President. 



Mr. A. M. Lea drew attention to the republication, with- 

 out acknowledgment, in the Transactions of another Society, 

 of nine plates already published in this Society's Transactions. 

 Resolved, "That the matter be referred to the Council." 



Exhibits. — Captain S. A. White exhibited fulgurites 

 from his estate at Fulham, taken from the sandhills 20 feet 

 below the original natural surface. Mr. Howchin remarked 

 that fulgurites, though rare in southern Australia, were more 

 frequent in New South Wales and in Central Australia, and 

 that the alkaline element in the sand provided the flux neces- 

 sary for fusion. Mr. J. G. O. Tepper believed that the 

 lightning followed the deep roots of sedges to the underlying 

 water. Captain White also exhibited two small tits (Acan- 

 fliiza marianae, n. sp.) from the Everard Range. 



Papers. — ''A Geological Sketch-Map, with Descriptive 

 Notes on the Upper and Lower Torrens-Limestones in the Type 

 District," by Walter Howchin, F.G.S. "Circum-elongation 

 Observations for Azimuth," by Professor R. W. Chapman, 

 M.A., B.C.E. "The Haematozoa of Australian Birds, No. 3," 

 by J. Burton Cleland, M.D., Ch.M. "Notes on Australian 

 Eumolpides (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae), with Descriptions of 

 New Species," by Arthur M. Lea, F.E.S. "An Insect-catching 

 Grass (Cenchrus misfralis, R. Br.)," by Arthur M. Lea, 



