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also exhibited a beautiful green grasshopper and a gigantic 

 earwig. Mr. A. M. Lea exhibited a collection of Queensland 

 insects, including PhasmidcE, a large grasshopper, a small 

 cricket from an ant's nest, a large cricket from Mount Tam- 

 bourine, and a large earwig ; also a case of beautiful Japanese 

 butterflies. Mr. Howchin, on behalf of Mr. George 

 Brunskill, exhibited a representation of an aboriginal 

 subincised phallus, worked out of an igneous basic 

 rock, which was obtained from Kimberley, Western Australia. 

 Dr. Rogers exhibited a herbarium specimen of Liperan- 

 thus nigricans, from Hahndorf, and referred to a method of 

 preserving the colour of dried specimens by placing them for 

 fifteen minutes in a solution of three parts of sulphurous acid 

 and one part of methylated alcohol. This solution would 

 restore the colour if already lost. Mr. A. M. Lea stated that 

 glycerine would restore the colour of beetles once, but not a 

 second time. Dr. Veeco exhibited three cowries (Cyprcea ther- 

 sites, Gaskoin) taken from a depth of 100 fathoms in the Great 

 Australian Bight. The brown markings, shown on other 

 specimens obtained from shallower depths, exhibited for com- 

 parison, were hardly noticeable. Adult shells from shallow 

 waters were usually very dark, and even young shells from 

 shallow water were more marked than adults from deep water. 

 The same fact was noticeable in some, but not in all volutes. 

 He also exhibited three Japanese shells, Pecten swifti, P. 

 latiaxis, and P. japonica; also Columbarium pagoda, so called 

 from its resemblance to the multiple roof of a pagoda. Dr. 

 Pulleine stated that he had found pagoda-like shells in deep 

 water off Sydney Heads. 



Paper. — A paper ''On Three Species of Isopod Crustacea 

 from the Nests of Ants in South Australia," by W. H. Baker, 

 F.L.S., was laid on the table. 



Ordinary Meeting, April 10, 1913. 



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

 chair. 



Elections. — A. E,. Riddle, science student, Yorketown, 

 Y.P., and T. G. B. Osborn, Professor of Botany, University 

 of Adelaide, were elected Fellows. 



Nomination. — H. J. Carter, B.A., Darling Point, 

 Sydney, was nominated as a Corresponding Member. 



Premium for New Comet. — A letter was received 

 through His Excellency the Governor from the Mexican 

 Legation, London, stating that the Astronomical Society of 

 Mexico would award a diploma and medal to the discoverer 

 of any new comet. 



