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D.Sc, remarked on the importance of technological work by 

 competent men which has up to the present time not been re- 

 cognized by our Governments. 



Ordinary Meeting, June 8, 1911. 

 At the invitation of the Board of Governors of the Public 

 Library, Museum, and Art Gallery the Fellows met in the 

 lecture-room of the Institute to witness the exhibition of slides, 

 entitled "Native Ceremonies and Customs of Central Aus- 

 tralian Aborigines," prepared by Mr. F. J. Gillen and 

 described and explained by Prof. E. C. Stirling, M.D., F.R.S. 



Ordinary Meeting, July 12, 1911. 



Professor Rennie, D.Sc, in the chair. 



Nominations. — E. Brown, M.B. (Melbourne), D.Ph. 

 (Cambridge); B. S. Roach, editor, Education Depart- 

 ment, Adelaide; W. H. Hughes, pastoralist, Gladstone; and 

 H. H. Dutton, pastoralist, Anlaby. 



Exhibits.— Mr. A. M. Lea, F.E.S., exhibited several 

 rare and interesting insects, including Hysteridce and Psela- 

 phidce from the nests of ants; also a new genus and species*- 

 of Leucari/idce from North Queensland. 



Papers. — "Additions to the Flora of South Australia, " 

 by J. M. Black. Mr. Black remarked on the importance of 

 notifying the date and place at which alien plants are first 

 observed. "A Preliminary Report on the Discovery of Native 

 Remains at Swanport, River Murray, South Australia, with 

 an Inquiry into the Alleged Occurrence of a Pandemic among 

 the Australian Aborigines," by E. C. Stirling, M.D., F.R.S. 



Ordinary Meeting, August 10, 1911. 



Elections. — E. Brown, M.B. (Melbourne), D.Ph.. 

 (Cambridge) ; B. S. Roach, editor, Education Department, 

 Adelaide; II. H. Dutton, pastoralist, Anlaby; and W. H. 

 Hughes, pastoralist, Gladstone, were elected Fellows. 



Nominations. — H. R. Gillespie, carpenter, Adelaide, as, 

 a Fellow. 



Exhibits. — Mr. A. M. Lea, F.E.S., exhibited stag 

 beetles from various parts of Australia, notably N eolamprima 

 mandibular is and numbers of the extensive Tasmanian genus 

 Lyssotes, also various forms of blind beetles from ant-nests. 

 Mr. Edquist exhibited specimens of saltbushes grown on the 

 Adelaide Plains from cuttings received from the north. Mr. 

 W. Howchin, F.G.S., exhibited pseudo-meteorites which he- 

 said were sandy concretions consolidated by bush fires. He had 

 found similar concretions in the fire circles of native camps, 



