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quartzite, obtained near Laura by Mr. M. H. Thiele, head 

 teacher of Laura Public School, who had forwarded it to the 

 University. Mr. A. M. Lea exhibited an insect-catching 

 grass (Cenchrus australisj gathered by him near Cairns, 

 Queensland. The outer glumes of the spikelets were armed 

 with barbed hairs or bristles, on which numerous insects 

 were impaled. The plant does not appear to draw nourish- 

 ment from these. Mr. F. R. Zietz exhibited anchovies 

 brought by Mr. W. B. Poole from the Glenelg River, where 

 they appear to be the prey of bream. Others from Port 

 Willunga had been secured by Mr. A. H. C. Zietz. He 

 also exhibited an Aplysia brought from Port Lincoln by Mr. 

 Randell. The President exhibited a large new volute 

 found off Newland Head, and more recently in the Aus- 

 tralian Bight, in 100 fathoms ; also a beautifully perfect 

 specimen of Cominella torri, fragments of which he had pre- 

 viously found on St. Francis Island. This specimen was 

 trawled in 100 fathoms. It locates the species in the genus 

 Nassaria. 



Paper. — ''Additions to the Flora of South Australia," 

 by J. M. Black, 



Ordinary Meeting, June 13, 1912. 



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

 chair. 



Death or Canon Blackburn. — The President said: — 

 "As President I have this evening with sincere regret to 

 formally notify the Society of the death of our esteemed 

 Fellow, the Rev. Thos. Blackburn, B.A. This furnishes an 

 opportunity not to be missed of publicly expressing our high 

 appreciation of him and our sense of the great loss we have 

 sustained. He graduated Bachelor of Arts at the London 

 University in 1868, and leaving England about eight years 

 later, was in Honolulu for some six years, then in Port Lin- 

 coln for about four years, and finally he settled at Wood- 

 ville, where he was Rector of St. Margaret's Church. This 

 was in 1886, the same year that his name first appears on 

 our list of Fellows. He must, therefore, have come into 

 touch with our Society directly after his arrival, and this 

 immediate alliance with a scientific body is evidence of the 

 keenness and energy of his scientific instincts. He has con- 

 sequently been associated with us for rather more than a 

 quarter of a century. He was no nominal member. In our 

 Transactions for 1886-1887 are to be found five papers written 

 by him, totalling together no fewer that 184 pages of printed 

 matter : and as the whole volume contained only 303 pages, 



