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careous rock from the vicinity of Cape Jervis from a raised 

 beach above the Till, and mentioned that Second Valley was 

 well worthy a visit, being evidently grooved out of the 

 glacial till, and exhibiting many travelled boulders. 



Papers. — "Descriptions of new Micro-lepidoptera," by 

 Dr. Jefferis Turner. "A Refutation of the Doctrine of 

 Homo taxis," by Prof. Ralph Tate, F.G-.S. (Withdravvn.) 



Ordinary Meeting, April 3, 1900. 



W. L. Cleland, M.B. (President) in the chair. 



Exhibits. — Mr. Gittins showed the fruit of a Japanese 

 climbing plant which Mr. J. G. O. Tepper subsequently dis- 

 covered was that of Akebia quinata, belonging to the order 

 Berberidese, and a native of China and Japan. Mr. Tepper 

 exhibited some galls from the wattle, Acacia pycnantha, 

 describing the insect which produced them. He also showed 

 a case of mosquitoes, Anopheles, which had been collected by 

 order of the Government to forward to London for the 

 School of Tropical Medicine to examine malarial germs, 

 &c, and made some interesting remarks on this troublesome 

 insect. 



Papers. — "A Collection of Birds' Skins from Kalgoorlie, 

 W.A.," by Robert Hall. "Further Notes on Australian 

 Coleoptera, &c," by Rev. Thomas Blackburn, B.A. 



Ordinary Meeting, May 1, 1900. 



W. L. Cleland, M.B. (President) in the chair. 



Exhibits. — President, referring to minutes of last meet- 

 ing, stated that it had been noticed that in two districts, 

 widely separated — one in Africa, the other in Indo-China— - 

 mosquitoes did not exist, and malarial fever was there un- 

 known. W. Howchin, F.G.S., exhibited graphic granite and 

 felspar from Winulta Creek, and from near Corny Point, 

 Yorke Peninsula, and showed some felspar which the 

 natives had endeavoured to shape for their weapons, but 

 had found very difficult to point owing to the cleavage and 

 hackly fracture of it. He also exhibited specimens of the 

 matrix in which diamonds were found from the De Beer's 

 mine, South Africa, A. Zeitz, F.E.S., Assistant Director of 

 the Museum, exhibited 20 species of abnormally coloured birds 

 collected in South Australia, J. G. 0. Tepper, F.L.S., ex- 

 hibited a piece of wattle tree stem completely riddled by 

 the larvae of (Agrilus Australasice) beetles which are so 

 destructive in wattle plantations. Also a rare fungus, 

 Battarrea sp. ? forwarded from Dalkey by Miss Ware. 



