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Fulham (vide Miscellanea) ; also a limestone formation from 

 Linley, consisting of a hollow boulder with crystals in the 

 interior ; also from the Murray Cliffs, beyond Morgan, a 

 blackened bone found upon blackened earth — probably the 

 caudaj vertebra of a large animal. Mr. W. H. Selway 

 showed a plant resembling Spar axis, found wild in the Water- 

 fall Gully, near Adelaide. Dr. J. C. Verco showed a large 

 series of cowries, Cypraea moneta and C. amvulus, demonstrat- 

 ing the many varieties of each species and how they grade into 

 each other. 



Paper. — ''Aborigines of West Coast of South Australia: 

 Vocabularies and Ethnographical Notes," by Daisy M. 

 Bates, communicated by J. M. Black. 



Annual Meeting, October 10, 1918. 



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

 chair. 



Election. — W. J. Kimber, orchardist, was elected a 

 Fellow. 



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 Lieut.-Colonel R. S. Rogers, M.A., M.D. ; 

 Hon. Treasurer, W. B. Poole; Members of Council, Samuel 

 Dixon and Professor T. G. B. Osborn, M.Sc. ; Hon. Auditors, 

 W. L. Ware, J. P., and H. Whitbread ; Representative 

 Governor on Board of Public Library, etc., Walter Howchin, 

 F.G.S. 



Exhibits. — Mr. A. M. Lea exhibited some wheat and 

 weevils from a badly-infected stack at Birkenhead. The stack 

 had been enclosed with malthoid and fumigated with carbon 

 dioxide gas, with the result that the whole of the weevils had 

 been destroyed without injury to the wheat. Also a tube 

 containing thousands of spring-tail insects (Poduridae) taken 

 by Mr. H. S. Cope, of Copeville, from a string half a chain 

 wide and three chains long. 



Papers. — "Notes on the Geology of Ardrossan and its 

 Neighbourhood," by Walter Howchin, F.G.S. ; "A 

 Graphical Computator for determining the most Economical 

 Beam to carry a given Load," by R. W. Chapman, M.A., 

 B.C.E., F.R.A.S. ; "Notes on the occurrence of Lepidopleurus 

 badius in South Australia," by Frank L. Saunders, com- 

 municated through J. C. Verco, M.D., F.R.C.S.; "The 

 Lepidoptera of Broken Hill, N.S.W., Part IV.," by Oswald 

 B. Lower, F.Z.S., F.E.S. ; "Additions to the Flora of South 



