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MISCELLANEA. 



Notes on Occurrences during Summer Recess, 1919=20. 



Speaking at a meeting of the Society on Thursday, 

 April 8, 1920, th^ President (Sir Joseph Verco) welcomed 

 the election as a Fellow of Mr. Herbert Mayo, LL.B. Mr. 

 Mayo, he said, was a son of Mr. G. G. Mayo, who had 

 nominated him that he might step into his father's place. 

 The latter, who had tendered his resignation, had been elected 

 a member of the Adelaide Philosophical Society 46 years 

 ago. Only one name stood before his on the roll of the 

 Society, and that was the name of the Secretary (Mr. Walter 

 Rutt, C.E.), who had been elected in 1869. When Dr. W. 

 L. Cleland had been elected President of the Society in 

 1897, and had resigned as Secretary, Mr. G. G. Mayo had 

 been chosen as his successor, and had retained the position 

 for 12 years. In 1909 he had been followed by Dr. R. H. 

 Pulleine. The Society owed him a debt of gratitude for the 

 work he had done in that capacity for so many years, and 

 members were pleased that he would still be represented on 

 the register by his son and daughter. He also referred to 

 the knighthood (Knight Commander of the Order of the 

 British Empire) conferred upon Professor W. H. Bragg, 

 an Honorary Fellow of the Society. He said that in the 

 last four numbers of The Illustrated London News were well- 

 illustrated abstracts of four Christmas lectures recently 

 delivered by Sir W. H. Bragg at the Royal Institution on 

 "Sound." The Professor had been elected a Fellow of the 

 South Australian Society in 1886, and an Honorary Fellow 

 in 1910. He also reported that the late Sir Edwin T. 

 Smith had bequeathed to the Society the sum of £200, which 

 would in due course be added to the Endowment Fund. 



Obituary Notice of Robert Etheridge. 



The death, since our last meeting, of Mr. Robert 

 Etheridge, late Director of the Australian Museum, Sydney, 

 removes from our midst one of the most prominent and dis- 

 tinguished geologists, not only of Australia but of the world. 

 His father (Mr. Robert Etheridge, sen.) was for many years 

 a well-known specialist in British geological circles, first as 

 palaeontologist to the English Geological Survey, and later 

 as assistant keeper in geology at the British Museum, so 

 that his son was to the manner born. Mr. Robert Etheridg-e, 



