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takes place in the mature bird ; also two specimens of Aus- 

 tralian Goshawk (Urospiza fasciata) showing the same change. 

 Mr. A. M. Lea exhibited a drawer containing some insects 

 whose sexes are strikingly different in general appearance ; in 

 some cases the males are provided with large wings, whilst 

 the females are wingless, or almost so; in others the males 

 are considerably smaller and differently coloured from their 

 females, or are provided with processes on the head that are 

 absent from the females. 



Flinders Chase. — Capt. S. A. White reported on the 

 progress made towards the reservation of Flinders Chase. 



Papers. — "Additions to the Flora of South Australia, 

 No. 15," by J. M. Black; and "A Review of the Genus 

 Loricella (Order Polyplacophora) with Notes on Features 

 previously unnoted and Description of a New Species," by 

 Edwin Ashby, F.L.S., M.B.O.U. 



Ordinary Meeting, June 12, 1919. 



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

 the chair. 



Prof. E. H. Rennie, M.A., D.Sc, F.C.S., Vice- 

 President, referred to the honour of knighthood recently con- 

 ferred upon the President, and to the fact that he had been 

 a Fellow of the Society for forty-one years and President con- 

 tinuously for seventeen years, during which time he had 

 rendered the Society valuable service, both personal and 

 financial. He moved — "That this Society offers to Dr. Verco 

 its heartiest congratulations upon the receipt by him of the 

 honour of knighthood." Lieut. -Col. R. S. Rogers, M.A., 

 M.D., Vice-President, seconded the motion, which was carried 

 by acclamation. Sir Joseph Verco suitably responded. 



Prof. Walter Howchin, F.G.S., laid on the table a 

 progress report of the Australasian Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. The biennial meetings, suspended 

 during the war, would now be resumed, the next being held 

 in January at Hobart. 



Nomination. — Miss Helen M. Mayo, M.B., B.Sc, was 

 nominated as Fellow. 



The President laid on the table correspondence referring 

 to the suggested establishment in Australia of a National 

 Research Council in affiliation with the International 

 Research Council recently inaugurated. In this connection 

 the Royal Society of New South Wales proposed a conference 

 in Sydney in July. Resolved — "That the Hon. Secretary 

 reply that the Society saw objections in the way of fixing an 

 early date for the Conference, owing to the dislocation of 

 travelling facilities through the coal strike and the influenza 



