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Elections. — James Durward, chemist, Currie Street^ 

 and James Hendry, chemist, Currie Street, as Fellows. 



Geants in Aid of Research. — The President sub- 

 mitted draft of a circular offering grants in aid of Scientific 

 Research, which had been prepared by the Council, and 

 moved that the same be approved. The motion was seconded 

 by Mr. S. Dixon, and after discussion carried. 



Late G. Brunskill. — The President referred to the 

 recent death of Mr. George Brunskill, for nine years a useful 

 Fellow of the Society, and it was resolved "That a letter 

 of sympathy be sent to his widow." 



Exhibits. — Professor Kerr Grant exhibited "The Rain- 

 bow Cup/' an instrument designed by Professor Voys, of 

 London. A soap film, stretched on a metal hoop, was rapidly 

 rotated, the centrifugal force caused the thickness of the film 

 to decrease from the circumference to the centre, thus causing 

 the light reflected by the film to vary in colour, and show 

 a series of coloured rings, finally resulting in a central black: 

 spot when the thickness was reduced to one twelve-millionth 

 of a millimetre. Mr. W. H. Selway exhibited a glaciated 

 stone from the neighbourhood of Hallett's Cove. Mr. A.M. 

 Lea exhibited a collection of insects forwarded by Mr. Horace 

 Brown from the Cue district of Western Australia. Captain 

 S. A. White exhibited the following birds: — CUmacteris rufa 

 orientalis , Mathews, or rufous tree-creeper, from the western 

 end of Gawler Ranges, the only locality in South Australia 

 in which it had been found, it being a Western Australian 

 bird. Mr. A. M. Lea had found the contents of the stomach 

 to be 150 heads of small caterpillars, 1 small cockroach, 36 

 small pissants, 4 larger pissants, 1 sugar ant, 23 green-head 

 ants, and 1 part of the head of an ant. CUmacteris super - 

 ciliosa, North, or white-browed tree-creeper, from Lake- 

 Gairdner, discovered by the Horn Expedition, in Central 

 Australia, in 1894. CUmacteris leuco'phcea, Latham, or 

 white-throated tree-creeper, from Myponga, a fairly common 

 bird in the Mount Lofty Ranges, shown for comparison with 

 superciUosa. Pacliycephala rufigularis, Gould, or red- 

 throated thickhead, from Ned's Well, east of River Murray, 

 described by John Gould in 1840, but not since seen until 

 rediscovered by Captain and Mrs. White in 1912. Its note 

 was very distinct from that of all other members of the genus. 

 Pachycephala gilberti, Gould, or Gilbert's thickhead, from 

 Gawler Ranges, discovered in Western Australia by Gilbert, 

 prior to 1844, and extending into the north-west parts of 

 South Australia. Mr. F. R. Zietz exhibited an introduced 

 Hibiscus, now running wild in South Australia. 



