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conductor. Where accommodation is limited, consideration will be given to 

 priority of application. 



7. Accommodation cannot be supplied unless tickets are obtained before 

 the time mentioned in the special circular. 



8. Those who attend an excursion without previous notice will be liable 

 to extra charge, if extra cost be thereby incurred. 



9. No mtoxicating liquors shall be provided at the expense of the Section. 



EXCURSIONS. 



FiEST ExcvKsioN — Monday, Notembee 10, 1884. — G-oldek 



Grove, &c. 



About fifty ladies and gentlemen proceeded on this date by 

 coacb to Golden Grove, Bishop's Springs, and the gorge of 

 the Little Para Eiver. On arrival at Bishop's Springs a 

 meeting was held, at vhich five new members were elected, 

 and votes of thanks paf^sed to the E,ight Eev. C. A. Eeynolds 

 and Mr. John Eobertson, J. P., for their courtesy in permitting- 

 members of the Section to make use of their grounds. Prof. 

 Tate then addressed the party, and said he was glad to avail 

 himself of the opportunity of explaining to the members a few 

 of the salient rock features of the locality. They consisted of 

 thickly-bedded sandstones and grits forty to sixty feet thick, 

 and intercalated among clay slates. There were four of these 

 bands, and where they were intersected by the stream-courses 

 they formed waterfalls. They were traceable on the surface as 

 colossal walls, and on the elevated grounds appeared at a dis- 

 tance like Cyclopean ruins. Prom their moderate dip and the 

 varying slopes of the ground, and the presence of two deep 

 waterways, the outline on the surface of the grit bands some- 

 what resembled a collection of the letters Y and W, all in- 

 verted, and altogether afforded very interesting examples of 

 the chief phenomena of stratification. These bands, which 

 had previously been supposed to be of igneous origin, had been 

 proved by Mr. Scoular, who had studied them at this and 

 neighbouring places, to be of sedimentary origin, some evidences 

 of which (such as the lamination of the lower part of the grits) 

 were observable in the sections examined by the party. The 

 position of these bands, in addition to forming a waterfall, had 

 caused a deflection of the stream which flowed along the base 

 for several hundred yards, by which a long mural line of cliff 

 is maintained. This was the habitat of a rare plant in the 

 southern portions of the colony, the ScJeranthus pungens. The 

 Professor indicated that a botanical feature was noticeable in 

 connection with the grits, viz., the prevalence of the sheaoak 

 (^Casuarioia quadrivalvis) , and explained that even where the 

 grits did not form any marked outcrop, their presence was in- 



