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Resolved, on the motion of A. G. Edquist, seconded 

 by Professor Osborn — "That this Society interest itself in 

 the future planting of Morialta Reserve, and recommend that 

 the Flora of the Reserve be kept typically Australian by the 

 exclusion of exotic trees and shrubs." 



Resolved — "That a copy of this resolution be presented 

 to the Minister controlling the Reserve, by a deputation 

 consisting of the President, Dr. Pulleine (V.P.), the Hon, 

 Secretary, Professor Osborn, Professor Cleland, and Dr. 

 Rogers." 



Papers. — "The External Characters of Pouch Embryos 

 of Marsupials, No. 2, Notoryctes typhi ops," by Professor 

 Wood Jones, D.Sc, F.Z.S.; "Australian Coleoptera of the 

 Family Malacodermidae," by A. M. Lea, F.E.S. 



Exhibits. — Professor Howchin drew attention to the 

 variation in the present outline of the Morialta Fall from that 

 shown in the coloured illustration of the same (then known as 

 Glen Stuart) in George French Angas' book published in 

 1845, proving that there had been a slight recession in the 

 falls since that date. Mr. Edwin Ashby exhibited some 

 specimens of great historic interest, shells collected by the 

 famous naturalists, Peron and Lesueur, of the ship "Le 

 Geographe," under the command of Capt. Nicholas Baudin, 

 who, in 1802, sailing round from eastern Australia, met Capt. 

 Flinders in the "Investigator." The naturalists made some 

 very valuable collections at the. various places visited, especi- 

 ally at King Island, in Bass Strait. The specimens shown by 

 Mr. Ashby are some of those collected while Baudin lay off 

 King Island, and which, on the arrival of the explorers in 

 Paris, were named by the famous French savant, De Blain- 

 ville, in 1825. The name he gave to them was that of Chiton 

 lineal at us. It is a rather interesting coincidence that the 

 final recognition of De Blainville's shell Chiton, now Ischno- 

 chiton lineolatus, was only established by one of Mr. Ashby's 

 papers published in the Royal Society's Transactions of last 

 year. This result was made possible through information 

 supplied by a Belgian specialist in this group of mollusca 

 named Commandant Paul Dupius. In August last year, after 

 a long silence due to grave illness, Mr. Ashby received a letter 

 from him in which he says, "I shall have no time again to 

 study further my Polyplacophora. The Museum offered to 

 me £100 to get my collection (less than it has cost me), but 

 I do not like to put my collection where nobody will do any 

 work about it. I prefer to give the whole lot to somebody 

 interested with the matter, so I decided to send you my 

 collection parcel by parcel." He then mentions some of the 

 very valuable types and cotypes the collection contains, and 



