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T. G. B. Osborn, M.Sc, and Samuel Dixon; Bon. AuditorSy. 

 W. L. Ware, J. P., and Howard Whitbread. 



Papers. — "Fishes of the South Australian Government 

 Trawling Cruise, 1914," by Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., and 

 Allan R. McCulloch ; "A Revision of the Genus Aracaiia and 

 its Allies," by Allan R. McCulloch and Edgar R. Waite, 

 F.L.S. ; "Australian Hymenoptera Proctotrypoidea, No. 3," 

 by Alan P. Dodd ; "Natural History Notes gathered on an 

 Expedition to the Everard and Musgrave Ranges," by Captain 

 S. A. White, M.B.O.U., and Others : "The Natives of Mailu, 

 Papua : Preliminary Results of the Robert Mond Research 

 Work in British New Guinea," by B. Malinowski, Ph.D. 

 (Cracow) (communicated by Dr. E. C. Stirling, C.M.G., 

 F.R.S.). 



Exhibits. — Mr. E. R. Waite, F.L.S. , exhibited a long- 

 tailed mouse with a pouch on the throat, a death adder, and a 

 young banded-snake, all illustrating Captain White's paper. 

 Mr. A. M. Lea showed a tray of Australian Cicadidae, and a 

 collection of insects from the Daly River, Northern Territory^ 

 trapped by a plant apparently allied to the Drosera. 



ANNUAL REPORT, 1914-15. 



The Council is pleased to be able to again present a 

 favourable report upon the year's work of the Society. The 

 annual volume of Transactions will contain papers of varied 

 interest, including further contributions to Geology by Mr. 

 Walter Howchin, to Entomology by Mr. A. M. Lea, and to 

 Ichthyology by Mr. E. R. Waite, and the first of a series of 

 pajDers on the Lepidoptera of Broken Hill by Mr. O. B. Lower. 

 A valuable feature will be a series of papers embodying the 

 scientific results of Captain S. A. White's observations while 

 attached as a representative of this Society to the expedition 

 led by Mr. R. L. Jack, Assistant Government Geologist, to 

 the Musgrave and Everard Ranges, to which reference was 

 made in the last annual report. A lengthy paper by Dr. 

 Malinowski, on "The Natives of Mailu," being the preliminary 

 results of the Robert Mond Research Work in British New 

 Guinea, is an important contribution to our knowledge of 

 Papuan ethnology. 



The evening meetings have also afforded opportunity for 

 the exhibition of a large variety of objects of scientific interest, 

 and on one evening a public lecture on the D'Entrecasteaux 

 and Louisiade Archepelago, illustrated by numerous lantern 

 slides, was given by Mr. E. R. Stariley, Government Geologist, 

 Papua. 



