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Stomach Contents of Birds, by A. M. Lea, F.E.S. ; Lizards, 

 by F. R. Zietz; Fishes, by A. R. McCulloch and Edgar R. 

 Waite; Crustacea, by Dr. Charles Chilton; Insects, bv A. M. 

 Lea, F.E.S. ; Spiders, by W. J. Rainbow, F.L.S., F.E.S. ; 

 Plants, by J. M. Black; Notes on the Rainfall, by H. A. 

 Hunt." 



Ordinary Meeting, September 18, 1917. 



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

 chair. 



Nomination. — G. M. Young, chemist, Hutt Street, was 

 nominated as Fellow. 



Exhibit.— Mr. A.M. Lea exhibited Termites, queen and 

 workers; also a Bible from Leigh Creek, completely riddled 

 by these insects. 



Paper. — "Additions to the Orchidaceous Plants of South 

 Australia," by R. S. Rogers, M.A., M.D. 



Annual Meeting, October 11, 1917. 



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

 chair. 



Exhibits. — Mr. Howchin exhibited a glacial erratic 

 found by Dr. Teale at Dingable-Dinga, in a cutting on the 

 main road, between Meadows and Willunga. This is a new 

 locality for Permo-carboniferous glacial deposits and the 

 furthest north hitherto recorded, south of the Willunga 

 range. It is of quartzite, covered with a ferruginous skin, 

 of sub-angular outline, and having two smooth faces, one 

 distinctly striated. It is at present uncertain whether the 

 erratic was in situ, or had been washed out of a glacial clay 

 and mixed with re-arranged material. Mr. Edwin Ashby 

 exhibited two birds collected near Loxton, viz., Pomatorhinus 

 ruf'iceps and Malurus melanotus; also two forms of native 

 currant ( Styphelia depressa). Professor Osborn showed two 

 Lycopods, Isoetes, sp. (drummondii [?]), and Phylloglossum 

 drummondii, collected for the first time in South Australia. 

 Mr. A. M. Lea exhibited a collection of wheat-attacking 

 insects, some very destructive, some acting as scavengers, and 

 some being parasitical upon the destructive species ; also some 

 small flies of the genus Simulium. 



The Annual Report and Balance-sheet were read and 

 adopted. 



Election of Officers. — The following, who retired by 

 effluxion of time, were re-elected: — President, J. C. Verco, 

 M.D., F.R.C.S.; Vice-Presidents, Professor E. H. Rennie, 

 M.A., D.Sc, F.C.S., and Lieut. -Colonel R. S. Rogers, 



