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Arthur M. Lea, F.E.S., and "Australian Fungi: Notes 

 and Descriptions, No. 3," by J. B. Cleland, M.D., and 

 Edwin Cheel. 



Annual Meeting, October 9, 1919. 



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

 the chair. 



Election. — Professor T. Brailsford Robertson and Alan 

 Howe were elected Fellows. 



The Annual Report and Balance-sheet were read and 

 adopted. 



Election of Officers. — The following were elected for 

 the year 1919-20: — President, Sir Joseph Verco, M.D., 

 F.R.C.S.; Vice-Presidents, Major R. H. Pulleine, M.B., and 

 Edwin Ashby, F.L.S., M.B.O.U. ; Hon. Treasurer, W. B. 

 Poole; Members of Council, Professor E. H. Rennie, M.A., 

 D.Sc, F.C.S., Lieut. -Colonel R. S. Rogers, M.A., M.D., 

 Professor Walter Howchin, F.G.S., Professor R. W. Chap- 

 man, M.A., B.C.E., F.R.A.S., and Captain S. A. White, 

 C. M.B.O.U. ; and the resignation of Samuel Dixon was 

 accepted; Auditors, W. L. Ware and Howard Whitbread ; 

 Representative Governor on Board of Public Library, etc., 

 Professor Walter Howchin, F.G.S. 



Resolutions were passed recording the Society's appre- 

 ciation of the service renderd by Capt. S. A. White in obtain- 

 ing the passage through Parliament of the Flinders Chase 

 Bill, and also of the long service of Mr. Samuel Dixon as 

 a member of the Council, with special reference to his exer- 

 tions in connection with the reservation of Flinders Chase. 



Exhibits. — Mr. E. Ashby exhibited three plants from 

 Kangaroo* Island^-an Aster, an Eriostemon, and Prostanthera 

 speciosa ; also a fungus, commonly known as "native bread," 

 from Gippsland, which, after being brought to Balaklava 

 had grown mushroom-shaped protuberances which would 

 apparently become spore-bearing. Mr. A. M. Lea showed 

 some night-feeding caterpillars (cut- worms) from Border- 

 town, where on one farm similar caterpillars had completely 

 destroyed 12 acres of wheat; other parts of South Australia 

 had also been badly affected. He also showed some predaceous 

 water bugs (Dyplonychus), the females of which lay their 

 eggs on the backs of the males; they were obtained at Murray 

 Bridge by Mr. H. Hale. Mr. W. H. Selway showed a granite 

 erratic from Inman River, showing signs of glaciation ; also 

 a chalcedonous nodule from north of Marree. Mr. B. S. 

 Roach, on behalf of Mr. Lipson Hancock, showed and pre- 

 sented to the Society three enlarged photographs of aborigines 

 taken at Ooldea, on the Port Augusta-Kalgoorlie railway. 



