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who had joined the staff of the South Australian Museum 

 more than thirty years ago, and was at the time of his death 

 ornithologist to that institution. He was elected a Fellow of 

 this Society in 1912, and had contributed important papers 

 on the Wild Hybrids of Australian Ducks, and Australian 

 Lacertilia ; he had also taken an active part in the discus- 

 sions, and been responsible for many interesting exhibits at 

 the meetinofs. 



Elections. — J. Sutton and Thos. Draper Campbell, 

 B.D.S., were elected Fellows. 



Papers. — "Notes on Australian Polyplacophora, with 

 descriptions of three New Species and two New Varieties," 

 by Edwin Ashby, F.L.S., M.B.O.U.; "A New Isopod from 

 Central Australia belonging to the Phreatoricidae," by Chas. 

 Chilton, D.Sc, C.M.Z.S. (communicated by Prof. F. Wood 

 Jones, M.R.C.S., D.Sc, etc.); "The Flora and Fauna of 

 Nuyt's Archipelago and the Investigator Group, No. 1 — 

 Amphipoda and Isopoda," by Chas. Chilton, D.Sd., 

 C.M.Z.S. (communicated by Prof. F. W^ood Jones, M.R.C.S., 

 D.Sc, etc.); "The External Characters of Pouch Embryos of 

 Marsupials, No. 3 — Isoodon Barrowensis," by Prof. F. Wood 

 Jones, M.R.C.S., D.Sc, etc. 



Resolved — "That the types and co-types collected by 

 Prof. F. Wood Jones during his exploration of Nuyt's 

 Archipelago be presented to the South Australian Museum." 



Resolved — "That a letter be sent to the Chairman of 

 the S.A. Harbours Board expressing appreciation of the 

 courtesy extended to the Professor by affording him facilities 

 to travel in the Board's s.s. Victory.' " 



Exhibits. — Mr. A. M. Lea exhibited a collection of 

 bones taken from the pellets of the common owl, representing 

 a year's food for one of these useful birds. It included bones 

 of 1,407 mice, 143 rats, 5 young rabbits, 375 sparrows, 23 

 starlings, and a few other birds, frogs, and bats; also some 

 insect remains. Some of the bones showed considerable sponge- 

 like swellings, indicating serious disease. He also showed a 

 collection of insects from North-w^est Australia, presented by 

 Dr. Morgan. Also a root from Mr. L. Harnett, taken from 

 the ground under an Adelaide building erected 62 years ago, 

 and still perfectly sound. Prof. F. Wood Jones exhibited 

 three maxillae of Thylacoleo and portions of maxillae and 

 mandibles of Thylacin-us which he had found in Buckalowi© 

 Cave, No. 2, near Carrieton. Capt. S. A. White showed a 

 large sheet of mycelium of a remarkable fungus resembling 

 chamois leather, found between the layers of wood of a giant 

 Evcalyptiis rostrata felled at the Reedbeds, near Adelaide. 



