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Also a fungus found growing from the head of a grub of the 

 same moth. Also berry-scales from young gum-trees. Mr. 

 Walter Howchin, F.G.S., exhibited some fossils from the 

 Cambrian of Central Australia, belonging to the genus Cryp- 

 tozoon, sent to him by Dr. Chewings. 



Papers. — "Occurrence of the Genus Gryptozoon in the ( ?) 

 Cambrian of Australia," by Walter Howchin, F.G.S.; 

 "Notes on the Amycterides in the South Australian Museum, 

 with Descriptions of New Species," Part I., by Eustace W. 

 Ferguson, M.B., Ch.M. ; "An Hemipterous Insect from an 

 Australian Opossum's Nest," by E. Bergroth, M.D., com- 

 municated by A. M. Lea, F.E.S. ; "Notes on the Stratigraphy 

 of Central Australia," by Charles Chewings, Ph.D., F.G.S. 



Public Lecture, May 8, 1914. 



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

 chair. 



A public lecture on "Oysters and their Culture in South 

 Australia " was given by W. G. Randall, Senior Inspector of 

 Oyster Fisheries. 



Ordinary Meeting, Thursday, May 14, 1914. 



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



chair. 



Patron. — The Hon. Secretary reported that His Excel- 

 lency Sir Henry Galway, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., had accepted the 

 position of Patron of the Society. 



Elections. — Eustace W. Ferguson, M.B., Ch.M., As- 

 sistant Government Pathologist, Sydney, and Gregory M. 

 Mathews, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., F.Z.S.", Ornithologist, Watford, 

 Herts, England, were elected Fellows. 



Nomination. — Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., Director of the 

 South Australian Museum, was nominated as Fellow. 



Exhibits. — Dr. Pulleine exhibited enlargements of 

 photographs of live spiders. Both originals and enlargements 

 were taken with a vertical camera with about one sixty-fourth 

 of an inch aperture and sixty or seventy seconds' exposure; 

 also photographs of spiders, natural size, taken by himself with 

 the same camera. These gave every detail necessary for full 

 description at any time. He also exhibited the photograph 

 of a spirit specimen of a spider ; the nest of a hunting spider 

 with lid hinged on to one side of the tube ; and nests of spiders 

 of various ages, showing that the lids were not used in their 

 earlier stages. Some of the lids were hard and some soft. He 



