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Papers. — "Additions to the Flora of South Australia,'" 

 by J. M. Black; ''Mechanism of Pollination in some Aus- 

 tralian Orchids," by E. S. Rogers, M.A., M.D. 



Ordinary Meeting, July 10, 1913. 



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

 afterwards Walter Howchin, F.G.S., in the chair. 



Aid to Research. — The Hon. Secretary reported that 

 the circular approved at the last meeting had been printed 

 and distributed to all universities and to various societies in 

 Australia. 



Visit of British Associaticn. — The President stated 

 that the names of persons willing to cffer hospitality to mem- 

 bers of the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, who would be visiting Adelaide in 1914, should be 

 given to either Professor Kerr Grant or the Hon. Secretary. 



Exhibits. — The President exhibited models showing 

 how, in the families Pyramidellidae and Turbonillidae, a 

 sinistral protoconch is found on a dextral shell, lying some- 

 times horizontally, sometimes obliquely, and sometimes im- 

 bedded in the upper part of the adult shell. Mr. E. Ashby 

 exhibited the following grass parrots: — Psephotus hcema- 

 toTi'hus, from Queensland; P. xanthorrhous, from South Aus- 

 tralia; P. hcematonotus, which was common near Adelaide, 

 in 1888 : P . multicolor : P. pulcheri^imus, from Queensland,, 

 male and female ; and N eophema pulchella, which was sup- 

 posed to be extinct. Captain S. A. White exhibited the fol- 

 lowing ground birds inhabiting saltbush country : — Cala- 

 manthus ethelce, Mathews, male and female, from Eyre 

 Peninsula, and male from near Meningie, Lake Albert, a new 

 sub-species; Calcimanthus campestris, Gould, three speci- 

 mens from Port Augusta district, whence also Gould obtained 

 his type. Mr. A. M. Lea, F.E.S., exhibited a branch of 

 Eucalyptus affected by a bag moth, the bags being supposed 

 to be a protection against birds; also a gall from a species of 

 Acacia, supposed to be caused by a rust, with which Pro- 

 fessor Mc Alpine had found them thickly coated. Mr. F. R. 

 Zietz exhibited two species of snakes and two of lizards col- 

 lected by Captain S. A. White on an ornithological expedition 

 of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' Union on Flinders 

 Island, Bass Straits. So far as known these species have not 

 been previously recorded from that island. They were as 

 follows: — Denisonia superha, large-scaled snake, or copper- 

 head, also known as the diamond snake of Tasmania; for- 

 merly recorded from New South Wales, South Australia, and 

 Tasmania; length, 48 in.; Notechis scutatus, tiger snake of 



