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among the aborigines and resided in their camps for several 

 years, and described the different rules regulating marriage 

 between the various phratries of the tribes, and upon these 

 differences founded a classification of the tribes into six main 

 divisions or nations. 



Annual Meeting, October 8, 1914. 



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

 chair. 



The Annual Report and Balance-sheet were read and 



adopted. 



Election of Officers. — President, J. C. Verco, M.D., 

 F.R.C.S.; Vice-Presidents, Professor E. H. Rennie, M.A., 

 D.Sc, F.C.S., and R. S. Rogers, M.A., M.D. ; Hon. Treasurer, 

 W. B. Poole; Members of Council, E. Ashby and R. H. Pul- 

 leine, M.B. ; Member of Council for remainder of term of Dr. 

 Rogers, Professor R. W. Chapman, M.A., B.C.E. ; Represen- 

 tative Governor and Editor, Walter Howchin, F.G.S.; Hon. 

 Auditors, W. L. Ware, J. P., and H. Whitbread. 



Election. — M. E. Saunders, electrical engineer, Mills- 

 wood, was elected a Fellow. 



Prospectus of the International Congress of Mining, 

 Metallurgy, Engineering, and Economic Geology, to be held 

 in London in July, 1915, was read and referred to the Council 

 for action. 



Exhibits. — Dr. Pulleine exhibited a series of spiders 

 collected by Captain S. A. White during his expedition to the 

 interior of the State in 1913. Several of them he had identi- 

 fied, but many had suffered too much during the journey for 

 determination. They comprised twenty -three specimens, be- 

 longing to twelve genera. Captain S. A. White exhibited a 

 bower bird, Chlamydera maculata macdonnelli, from Everard 

 Ranges ; also male and female of Bourke's parakeet, Neopse- 

 photus bourkii, from east of Musgrave Ranges, between Flat 

 Rock Hole and Morralinna Well. 



Papers. "Notes on Australian Tenebrionidae, with De- 

 scriptions of New Species," by H. J. Carter, B.A., F.E.S. ; 

 "Catalogue of the Cicadidae in the South Australian Museum, 

 with Descriptions of New Species," by Howard Ashton, com- 

 municated by A. M. Lea, F.E.S. ; "Additions to Australian 

 Orchidaceous Plants," by R. S. Rogers, M.A., M.D. ; 

 "Radulae of some South Australian Gasteropoda," by Claude 

 M. Torr, communicated by J. C. Verco, M.D., F.R.C.S. ; "Notes 

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