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Ordinary Meeting, May 11, 1922. 



The President (R. S. Rogers, M.A., M.D.) in the chair. 



The Hon. Secretary stated that the Council had asked 

 Prof. Sir William H. Bragg to represent the Society at the 

 150th Anniversary of L'Academie Royale de Eelgique, and 

 read a reply regretting his inability to be present on that 

 occasion. 



The Hon. Secretary read a letter from the National 

 League for the Protection of Natural Monuments, Florence, 

 asking the co-operation of the Fellows in the provision of 

 illustrations of native animals for zoological handbooks to 

 be issued by the League. 



Papers. — "A Geological Traverse of the Flinders Rangfe 

 from the Parachilna Gorge to the Lake Frome Plains," by 

 Prof. Walter Ho av chin, F.G.S. ; and "The Parasites of Aus- 

 tralian Birds," by Prof. J. Burton Cleland, M.D. In the 

 absence of the author, and also, through illness, of Prof. F. 

 Wood Jones, who was to have introduced it, the latter paper 

 was taken as read. 



Exhibits. — Sir Joseph C. Verco showed a number of 

 small snails (Helicella ventricosa, Draparnaud) (vide Mis- 

 cellanea). Mr. A. M. Lea exhibited a drawer of rove beetles 

 (Staphylinidae), several of which have remarkable combs on 

 the middle leg. One species lives on bush rats, another on 

 the flying fox, and others in nests of ants. Mr. W. J. Kimber 

 showed large fossil sharks' teeth from Port Willunga cliffs; 

 polyzoic limestone and a cast of a large cowrie shell from Point 

 Turton ; and Truncatilla scalarina, associated with large 

 deposits of sepia bones in raised beach at Minlacowie. 



Ordinary Meeting, June 8, 1922. 



The President (K. S. Rogers, M.A., M.D.) in the chair. 



Nominations. — C. T. Madigan, B.A., B.Sc. ; Guy A. 

 Lendon, M.B., B.S., M.R.C.P. ; and Alan H. Lendon were 

 nominated as Fellows. 



Papers. — "The Tertiary Brown Coal-bearing Beds of 

 Moorlands," by Prof. Sir Douglas Mawson, D.Sc, B.E., 

 and Frederick Chapman; "External Characters of Pouch 

 Embryos of Marsupials, No. 4 — rseudochirop.'< dahJi," by Prof. 

 F. Wood Jones, M.R.C.S., D.Sc, etc.; and "A New Species 

 of Puccmia," by C. F. Johncock, Corr. Mem. (communicated 

 by Prof. W. Howchin, F.G.S.). 



Exhibits. — Prof. W. Howchin exliibited several highly- 

 glaciated erratics obtained during his late expedition into 

 Central Australia in company with Prof. Sir Edgeworth 

 David under a grant from the Australian Association for the 



