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set of 120) containing one referring to the boyhood of John 

 Gould, the ornithologist. 



Paper. — Prof. Osborn laid on the table and briefly 

 described a paper, "Australian Fungi: Notes and Descrip- 

 tions, No. 2," by J. B. Cleland, M.D., and Edwin Cheel. 



Ordinary Meeting, May 8, 1919. 



The President (J. C. Verco, M.D., F.R.C.S.) in 



the chair. 



Elections. — O. A. Glastonbury and Edward Charles 

 Grigson as Fellows. 



The President referred with congratulations to the 

 distinction which had been conferred upon our Fellow, Dr. 

 Chas. Fenner, F.G.S., namely, the Sachse Gold Medal, as a 

 recognition of the merit of his paper, read last year before 

 the Royal Society of Victoria, on the "Geology and Physio- 

 graphy of the Werribee River Basin." He also expressed 

 regret at the decease of Mr. E. H. Wainwright, B.Sc. (Lond.), 

 who had been a Fellow of the Society for thirty-six years. 

 He was- in former days a teacher of chemistry at the Col- 

 legiate School of St. Peters. 



Exhibits. — Prof. Howchin exhibited a whale barnacle 

 that was picked up by Professor Rennie at Encounter Bay. 

 The barnacles are an abnormal group of the Crustacea classed 

 as the Cirripedia. The best-known families in this group 

 are the Lepadidae, or "goose barnacles," and the Balanidae, 

 or "acorn barnacles." The former are attached by a fleshy 

 stalk, and obtained their popular name from the old-world 

 notion that they turned into geese. The Balanidae, or 

 "acorn barnacles," have a cup-like shell, and are sessile, and 

 the typical genus, Bala n us, is the common form that covers 

 ship bottoms and almost all objects in shallow water. The 

 specimen shown belonged to the Balanidae, and could be 

 referred to the genus Coronula, and was probably C. diadema. 

 It differs from Balanus in that while the latter has a simple 

 turreted shell, in the Coronula the inner wall of the shell is 

 deeply infolded, by which the lower part of the shell is 

 divided up into radial chambers. It has the habit of attach- 

 ing itself to whales, and on that account is known as the 

 whale barnacle. Mr. Edwin Ashby exhibited Humming 

 Birds from America, and gave notice of motion for the July 

 meeting as follows: — "That this Society supports the 

 endeavours of the Ornithological Association of South Aus- 

 tralia to secure the introduction into Australia of the Hum- 

 ming Birds of America." Capt. White showed two speci- 

 mens of Sparrow-Hawk (Accipiter drrocepkalus), showing 

 the great change in colouration and colour pattern which 



