and, he showed how, by employing this method, he was able, in his own 

 investigations, to discover the point in the geology of the district which has 

 been overlooked in the old Geological Map. 



Mr. Brown came forward on two other evenings during the Winter 

 to read a Paper "on the Gault," but there being no attendance on either 

 evening, the Paper was not read. 



At the Fourth Meeting, Mr. W. Odling read a Paper on "Corals 

 and Coral Islands." In this Paper the author, besides giving a concise 

 condensation of the literature relating to corals, and the formation of 

 coral reefs, gave some of his own observations of one of these Coral 

 Islands which he visited last Summer. 



These were the only Papers of the Section read last Winter, and 

 the attendance at both, particularly the first, was good. 



JAS. O'SULLIVAN, 



Hon. Sec. 



REPORT OF THE MICROSCOPICAL SECTION. 



The first meeting of this newly formed section was held on the 4th 

 December last, when it was decided to take, as the work of the Section, 

 the study of the "Pond life" of the district, and to hold fortnightly in- 

 formal meetings in additional to the regular monthly ones. In pursuance 

 of this decision, six informal meetings have been held, at which specimen 

 tubes from Mr. Bolton — kindly presented to the Society by the Leader, 

 Mr. P. B. Mason — have been exhibited. The attendance however, has 

 been extremely small, and does not justify their continuance another 

 season. At the second monthly meeting, which was well attended, the 

 Leader gave an interesting resume of the different modes of collecting 

 pond life, illustrated by the necessary tools. 



The next monthly meeting was also well attended, and at that some 

 "Notes on Photo-micrography" were read by Dr. G. H. Morris. These 

 were illustrated by the apparatus used for the work, and by the taking 

 of a successful negative by the process described. 



In addition to these, a Paper, entitled "Notes on some Micro- 

 organisms," will be read by Mr. C. G. Matthews, at the next Meeting. 



JAMES G. WELLS, 



Hon. Sec. 



