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of the same subject, on 'Factors producing Uniformity of 

 Type amongst Australian Aboriginals,' illustrated by photo- 

 graphs of the natives from various districts in our continent. 



"When we review his association with our Society we 

 cannot but pay very cordial and eulogistic tribute to his 

 memory as one of our most helpful and efficient Fellows." 



Exhibits. — Mr. Walter Howchin exhibited a large 

 cylinder of flint obtained by Mrs. Pascoe of Port MacDonnell 

 from the flint-pebbles deposit, situated on the beach about 

 five miles to the westward of Port MacDonnell. The speci- 

 men measures 26 inches in height and 55 inches in circum- 

 ference. It has a certain superficial resemblance to a fossil 

 tree, but as it was formed by segregation in a marine bed 

 and consists of small marine organisms that have become 

 silicified by infiltration, the idea of a fossil tree cannot be 

 entertained. The flint that occurs in the MacDonnell Bay 

 is interbedded with the lower marine Tertiary beds, and is 

 often of . abnormal size and shape, some further examples of 

 which were exhibited by Mr. Howchin at the same time. 

 Mr. Edgar R. Waite exhibited a snake obtained by 

 Messrs. Edgar Savage and F. Angel, at Moolooloo, on the 

 Great Northern railway line. It proved to be an example 

 of Denisonia sulci, Peters, and is, perhaps, only the third 

 specimen recorded under this name, the type being in Berlin, 

 and a second example in the British Museum. All are from 

 South Australia. He also drew attention to the general 

 similarity of D. frontalis, Ogilby, and D. forresti, Boulenger, 

 to the snake exhibited. He also showed photographs of the 

 large blue whale, 87 ft. 10 in. long, stranded at C'orvisart Bay, 

 and later towed to Streaky Bay, where the skeleton was 

 obtained for transmission to the South Australian Museum. 

 Samples of the raw oil were likewise exhibited. Capt. S. A. 

 White exhibited eggs of the wedge-tailed eagle (Uroaetus 

 auclax), showing great variations in markings and colour- 

 ation; also eggs of the letter-winged kite (El anus scriptus), 

 taken on the Diamantina River, Western Queensland, by Mr. 

 S. W. Jackson, for Mr. H. L. White, of Scone, New South 

 Wales. In Gould's Handbook of Australian Birds, vol. i., 

 p. 55, the author stated: — "Capt. Sturt obtained it at the 

 Depot, and Mr. White, of the Reedbeds, South Australia 

 [Capt. White's father], informs me that he found this species 

 in great numbers on Cooper Creek, between latitudes 27° 

 and 28° in 1863. They were always in companies of ten to 

 twenty or thirty." Mr. A. M. Lea exhibited some gall 

 insects of the genus Brachyscelis; the female insect is wing- 

 less and is enclosed within a gall with three long horns; the 

 male insect on maturity is winged, but in its earlier stages 



