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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Royal Society of South Australia 



(Incorporated) 



for 1917-1918. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 8, 1917. 



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

 chair. 



The President reported that Mr. T. M. Young, who had 

 been nominated as Fellow, had since died. 



The President reported that Honorary Fellow Professor 

 W. H. Bragg had received the decoration Companion of the 

 Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) for his work as a 

 member of the Board of Invention and Research in connection 

 with the Admiralty. 



Exhibits. — Mr. Edwin Ashby, M.B.O.U., showed two 

 specimens of a parrot, Platycercus elegans fleurieuensis , Ashby 

 (Fleurieu Peninsula rosella), the type specimen having been 

 collected by Messrs. E. Ashby and F. E. Parsons near Second 

 Valley last Easter, and described by Mr. Ashby in The Emu 

 for July, 1917. Also, for comparison, P. elegans adelaidae, 

 Gould (Adelaide rosella), P. elegans melanopterus, North 

 (Kangaroo Island crimson parrot), and P. elegans nigrescens, 

 Ramsay (northern crimson parrot), of North Queensland. 

 Also the larva of a large bombex moth, found feeding on a 

 native peach tree (Santalum), near Pungonda, in the Loxton 

 district on September 11, 1917. Mr. A. M. Lea, F.E.S., 

 exhibited some click beetles (Elateridae), the larvae of which 

 are locally known as wire-worms. 



Papers. — The Hon. Secretary read abstracts of two 

 papers by Prof. T. G. B. Osborn, M.Sc, "On the Habitat 

 and Method of Occurrence in South Australia of Two Genera 

 of Lycopods hitherto unrecorded in the State," and 'Notes 

 on South Australian Fungi, with Description of a New Species 

 of Pnccinia." 



