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Advancement of Science. The specimens were obtained from 

 the tillit-e exposed at Yellow Cliff on the Finke River, and 

 from a new locality in the Crown Point Hill Ranee in the 

 same neis'hhourhood. Mr. A. M. Lea exhibited a common 

 Queensland scorpion (Hormurus caudicida) obtained alive in 

 Adelaide by Mr. A. Bcttcher in some bananas from 

 Queensland: 



Ordinary Meeting, July 13, 1922. 



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



Nominations. — Geoffrey Samuel, B.Sc. ; William Ham, 

 F.R.E.S.; and R. L. T. Grant, M.B., B.S., M.R.C.P., as 

 Fellows. 



Elections. — C. T. Madigan, B.A., B.Sc; G. A. Lendon, 

 M.B., B.S., M.R.C.P.; and A. H. Lendon, as Fellows. 



Papers. — 'Contributions to the Orchidolo^y of Aus- 

 tralia and New Zealand," by R. S. Rogers, M.A., M.D. ; 

 "The Physiography of the Meadows Valley, Mount Lofty 

 Ranges," by E. O. Teale, D.Sc. (communicated by Prof. 

 Walter Howchin, F.G.S.). 



Exhibits. — Mr. A. M. Lea exhibited a drawer of insects 

 showingf remarkable differences in the sexes. Prof. J. B. 

 Cleland exhibit-ed a specimen of the rare puffball Mytremyces 

 fuscus, Bert. Tliis is a new record for South Australia, and 

 was found on the shady side of a road cutting, at Mount 

 Lofty, on July 1. The exhibitor has only personally met 

 with this fungus once before, on a similar shady bank on 

 the Cambewarra Mountains, near Noura, N.S.W. The plant 

 has an erect dirt-coloured fenestrated stem, capped by a 

 rounded receptacle showing projecting whitish (sometimes 

 vermilion) teeth. In an early stage the receptacle is covered 

 with a little cap, one of which was also exhibited, having 

 been thrust off on to the ground. Dr. E. Angas Johnson 

 showed two specimens of Unio from River Onkaparinga. 

 Prof. F. W^ooD Jones showed two adult specimens of 

 Myrmecohius, probably distinct races, one from Western Aus- 

 tralia and one from South Australia. Mr. E. R. Waite 

 showed a model, one-tenth natural size, of Camarasaurus, and 

 a fossil femur of the same Dinosaur, found at Wyoming, 

 U.S.A. The model was prepared under the direction of Prof. 

 Henry Fairfield Osborne, Director of the American Museum 

 of Natural History. Mr. R. L. Jack showed a geological 

 model of Iron Knob and its vicinity. 



. Ordinary Meeting, August 10, 1922. 



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

 Elections.— R. L. T. Grant, M.B., B.S., M.R.C.P. ; 

 William Ham, F.R.E.S.; and Geoffrey Samuel, B.Sc, as 

 \\ Fellows. 



