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Karoonda, South Australia, on November 25, 1915: — 

 Gilbertornis rufogularis (Eastern Red-throated Thick-head), 

 Campbellornis superciliosus (White-browed Wood Swallow), 

 Dry modes brunneopygia (Scrub Robin), Oreoica cristata 

 clelandi (Southern Crested Bell Bird), Hylacola cauta 

 (Rufous-rumped Ground Wren), Acanthiza pusilla hamiltoni 

 (Red-rumped Tit), Smicrornis brevirostris viridescens (Green- 

 ish Tree-Tit), Pardalotus punctatus xanthopygius (Yellow- 

 rumped Pardalote), Leggeornis lamberti assimilis (Purple- 

 backed Wren), Epthianura albifrons (White-fronted Chat), 

 Gliciphila melanops chandleri (Tawny-crowned Honey-eater), 

 Gliciphila albifrons incerta (Eastern White-fronted Honey- 

 eater), Lichenostomus cratitius howei (Victorian Wattled- 

 cheeked Honey-eater) . Also to compare with above : — 

 A mytornis striatus (Striated Grass Wren), from same district, 

 (Pachycephala) Gilbertornis gilberti, from Mammm ; also 

 from Cape York, Queensland, Dr. MacGillivray's new parrot, 

 in which the male has a red face and bright-blue crown, the 

 rest of the plumage bright-green, and the female has a brown 

 crown and face, the rest of the plumage similar to the male. 

 He also showed a growing plant of the fern Aspidium unitum, 

 var. propinquum, referred to in his paper of May 13, 19l5. 

 Professor Chapman showed a flat bar of steel, on the edge of 

 which a series of crosses had been marked with a punch. 

 The edge had then been filed down until the marks were 

 removed, and then polished. The bar had then been strained 

 in tension beyond the elastic limit, when the marks had 

 become clearly visible, being raised slightly above the surface. 

 A small round bar, similarly treated, but overstrained by 

 compression, showed similar results, the resuscitated marks 

 in this case being slightly depressed. A plain polished bar 

 of mild steel broken under tension had developed two series 

 of lines at right angles to each other, showing the effect of the 

 distortion of the crystals. Mr. Edgar R. Waite showed 

 proofs of the maps and plates illustrating his description of 

 fishes, which would form Part I. of the published Scientific 

 Results of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Mr. A. 

 M. Lea showed the fruiting stems and seeds of four kinds of 

 Kentia palms; also fruit of Pandanus ; also lemon seeds which 

 had sprouted inside the fruit — all from Lord Howe Island; 

 also nest of trap-door spider from a tree fern on Norfolk 

 Island; and a very large Egyptian scorpion. Captain S. A. 



