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Paper. — 'A Tentative Hypothesis of the Nature of Heat 

 as a Form of Energy," by J. G. O. Tepper, F.L.S. 



Ordinary Meeting, June 5, 1900. 



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



Professor Ralph Tate moved, Mr. Howchin seconded — 

 "That the congratulations of this Society be accorded to 

 Joseph Vardon, one of the oldest Fellows of the Society, 

 upon his election as member of the Legislative Council for 

 the Central District of the colony.'"' — Carried by acclama- 

 tion. 



Exhibits. — J. G. O. Tepper. F.L.S.. a piece of leather 

 made from hide destroyed by Queensland tick. E. Ashby, 

 several moths collected by himself; one of which was identi- 

 fied by Mr. Tepper as Lithosia. W. Howchin, F.G.S., in 

 connection with his paper on glacial action in Southern 

 Yorke Peninsula, specimens of ice-marked stones. One 

 was an ice-polished granite boulder from a well at Yorktown 

 found in clay 60 ft. down. 



Papers. — "Evidences of Extinct Glacial Action on Sou- 

 thern Yorke Peninsula," by Walter Howchin, F.G.S. 

 "Supplementary List of Plants from Mount Lyndhurst Run," 

 bv Max Koch. 



Ordinary Meeting, July 3, 1900. 



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



Paper. — "The Physical Features of Lake Callabonna, with 

 an Account of the Discovery of its Fossil Remains," by Pro- 

 fessor E. C. Stirling, M.D., F.R.S. (Published in 

 ''Memoirs.'" vol. I., part 2). 



Ordinary Meeting, September 4, 1900. 



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



Exhibits. — A. Zeitz, F.L.S. , C.M.Z.S. S exhibited two 

 •species of crustaceans, Limnosia sp.? and Chelura sp. ? which 

 "he discovered boring in the piles of Largs Bay Jetty and 

 destroying the outer surface, whilst the Teredo riddles the 

 interior. J. G. O. Tepper F.L.S., showed a lime fruit 

 affected by a new disease not described by Mc Alpine in his 

 "Diseases of Citrus Trees." W. H. Selway showed some 

 rare wild flowers gathered from the foot of hills some two 

 miles west of Golden Grove ; also an orchid Caladenia 1 from 

 Monarto. 



