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President showed an ethnological object, sent by Dr. Ronald 

 Triidinger, from Melnt, on the Nile, in the Anglo-Egyptian 

 Sudan. It was a rude model in blue mud of an elephant, 

 with pieces of grass stem, about six inches in length, stuck 

 into its back. When a child is attacked by fever among the 

 Dinka tribe such a model is made, the grass stems being 

 inserted while it is soft, and the child is then expected to 

 recover. Capt. S. A. White showed six species of dotterels 

 from the dry interior of Australia, viz. : — Eupoda virida 

 (Oriental dotterel), Peltohyas australis (Australian dotterel), 

 Cirripedismus bicinctus (double-banded dotterel), Elseya 

 melanops (black-fronted dotterel), Leucopolius ruficapilhis 

 (red-capped dotterel), and Erytfvrogonys cinctus (red-kneed 

 dotterel). Mr. A. M. Lea exhibited some remarkable galls on 

 Banksias, from which several kinds of insects had been reared ; 

 also two flies, parasitic upon the egg masses of spiders, and 

 having extremely small heads in comparison with their bodies ; 

 also a drawer of carnivorous bark-beetles from the Blackburn 

 collection, and a drawer of fine tropical longicorn beetles. Mr. 

 J. M. Black showed several weeds gathered in flower on the 

 Adelaide park lands, between April 22 and 25, although 

 their usual flowering season varied from June to October. 

 This was the effect of the unusually heavy rains in February 

 and March. Mr. F. R. Zietz exhibited a nest of GeohasiJeus 

 chrysorrhous (yellow-rumped tit) from the Grange, and five 

 specimens of stone fungi from various parts of South 

 Australia. 



Ordinary Meeting, June 14, 1917. 



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

 chair. 



Sir E. C. Stirling. — The President reported that Pro- 

 fessor E. C. Stirling, C.M.G., F.R.S., etc., had been honoured 

 with the title of Knight Bachelor. Besides being a valued 

 contributor to the Transactions and Memoirs, Sir Edward 

 had, at various times, served the Society as President, Vice- 

 President, and Member of Council. 



Election. — J. F. Bailey, Director of Botanic Garden, 

 Adelaide, was elected a Fellow. 



Exhibits. — Capt. S. A. White exhibited objects obtained 

 on the route of the Port Augusta-Kalgoorlie Railway, viz.: — 

 (1) a marsupial mole; (2) salt from Lake Hart: (3) photo- 

 graphs of insects; and (4) various plants; also eggs of white- 

 backed and black-backed magpies, from different parts of South 

 Australia, noticeable for the great variation in their colouring. 

 It was resolved : "That the possibility of action to protect 

 the rare speciefc of palms and cycads from extermination be 



