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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
Royal Society of South Australia 
(Incorporated) 
FoR 1918-19. 
ORDINARY MEETING, NovEMBER 14, 1918. 
pen Presipent (d C. Vero, MD, F.R.C.S.) in 
the chai 
Nonixarion —The Rev. D. T. Whalley as a Fellow. 
E PRESIDENT made the following appreciative remarks 
about i^ late Dr. W. L. Cleland :— 
“It is only fitting that we should make more than a 
passing reference to the death during the past month of 
Dr. W. L. Cleland, who Je thirty-seven years was a Fellow 
of our Soci ciety. He was elected a member in a just at 
the time the- Adelaide Philosophical Associati on- 
verted into the Royal Society of South Australia: In 1882 
he „accepted the yery onerous position of Hon. retary, 
during six of those years he was also Ho 
and also to th ical Benevolent Association of South 
Australia, one begins to realize what a mass of w k he 
carrie in his quiet, unostentatious only 
the Royal Society to Mr. G. G. Mayo es was granted 
highest honour we could confer and wa 
in which office he served for two years. “Be fulfilled with 
for the Minutes show that on daly two occasions dudar the 
Vice-President, and after that a member of the Council, a 
sure Sign of his reliability and worth. 
n 1887 he read a short paper describing the geological 
fiut. of the country about the head of Lake Gilles, where 
were some polished rock surfaces 
EE his Presiden tia idua dealt with the 
aboriginals of Australia, while that of 1900 was in extension 
