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bird and animal calls; Melithreptiis Iceieor (Gould) (golden- 

 backed honey-eater), found only at Running Waters on the 

 Finke River; also the following plants, viz.: — Casuarina De- 

 •eaisneana (desert oak), the bark, fruit, and foliage, as well as 

 photographs of young and adult trees ; Grevillea striata (silky 

 oak), flowers, foliage, and photograph of tree; Acacia cypero- 

 pkylla (red mulga), fruit, foliage, and flowers, and photographs 

 of tree and bark ; and numerous specimens of thorn bushes, 

 including Acacia farncsiana. Mr. Walter Howchin, F.G.S., 

 exhibited fragments of Belemnites, encrusted with gypsum, 

 collected by Captain White. 



Professor Stirling, C.M.G., gave a resume, illustrated 

 by bones and photographs, of work done in connection with 

 the fossils from Lake Callabonna, with special reference to the 

 Giant Wombat. The results are embodied in Vol. I. of the 

 Society's Memoirs. Mr. Walter Howchin stated that the 

 large marsupials and struthious birds appeared in Australia in 

 a comparatively recent geological age, probably the later 

 pleistocene, and somewhat suddenly disappeared in recent 

 times. This was possibly due to a change of climate, following 

 on the development of a new watershed which arose across the 

 old lines of drainage, damming the water back and converting 

 the north-south into an east-west drainage, while the im- 

 pounded waters of the interior became increasingly saline. 



Ordinary Meeting, April 2, 1914. 



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

 chair. 



Nominations. — Eustace W. Ferguson, M.B., Ch.M., 

 Assistant Pathologist to the Government of New South Wales, 

 Roseville, Sydney, and Gregory M. Mathews, F.R.S.E., 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S., Ornithologist, Watford, Herts, England, as 

 Fellows. 



Welcome to Dr. Mawson. — The President reported 

 that he had represented the Society at the University Com- 

 memoration held to welcome our Fellow, Douglas Mawson, 

 D.Sc, B.E., and his party on their return from the Antarctic, 

 and had spoken on behalf of the Society at the public welcome 

 given in the Adelaide Town Hall. He had also telegraphed 

 to Dr. Mawson the congratulations of the Society on the day 

 of his arrival and on his wedding day. 



Congratulations to Mr. Howchin. — The President 

 congratulated Mr. Walter Howchin, F.G.S., member of the 

 Council, upon the award made to him by the Geological Society 

 of London from the Lyell Fund, in recognition of the 



