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of the jaw. Another skull from the same source, showin 
remarkable sutural development, was also exhibited. Atten- 
tion was also directed to two artificially distorted skulls from 
Southern New Britain—a tight wrapping around an infant’s 
head induces an elongated skull. In one of the exhibits the 
supraorbital region had been included in the wrapping and 
the ridges had not developed in consequence; in the second 
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miles north of the above locality, have been classed as F- 
elegans adelaidensis, one being in the green immature 
plumage rom the Adelaide plains are very bright 
irds. One from Mount Pleasant is also a very bright bird 
One from Sout ara is much li . Two from Mount 
slate outcrops at Mount Remarkable, ripple marked, showing 
i ited i ter. Mr. F. R. 
that it had been deposited in sha r r 
ZiETz showed a pink-eared duck (Malacorhyncus membra- 
naceus) from the Lower Murray. Mr. E. AsHBY showed a 
pyrites concretion from the Tapley Hill slate. i 
Parers.—‘‘Notes on the Occurrence of Aboriginal 
Polyplacophora, including descriptions of two new genera, 
oposed recognition 
of W. T. Bednall’s Stenochiton pilsbryanus," by Epwin 
Asupy, F.L.S., M.B.O.U., etc.; and “The Occurrence and 
Origin of certain Quartz-Tourmaline Nodules in the Granite 
of Cape Willoughby," by C. E. TILLEY, B.Se. (communicated 
by Prof. Howchin). 
Orprnary Meerine, AvcusT 15, 1919. 
Tur PnrsipENT (Sir Joseph Verco, M.D., F.R.C.S.) in 
the chair. à 
