Proceedings, ^c. 



XI 



several members present for the first time were introduced to the 

 Society by tlie President. 



The Secretary read the names of two gentlemen as candidates for 

 ordinary membership, to be ballotted for at the ensuing meeting. 



The following gentlemen were ballotted for as ordinary members of 

 the Society, Messrs. Eades and Irving acting as scrutineers of the 

 ballot : — 



Charles Mayes, Esq., C.E., Government Railway Department. 



S. Rentsch, Esq., Swiss Consul. 



The Hon. J. F. Martley, Esq., M.L.A., Solicitor-General 



Professor Charles Damm, Principal, German College. 



John Hadden, Esq., M.D., Collingwood. 



John Menzies, Esq., Teacher, Model Schools. 



John Walker, Esq., Architect, Queen-street and Royal-terrace. 



George Gordon McCrae, Esq., No. 3 Caspar-place, Richmond. 

 The following contributions were laid upon the table by the Se- 

 cretaiy : — No. 12 of the Mining Surveyors' Reports, April, 18G0 — by 

 the Board of Science. Geological Map of Hesse Darmstadt and parts 

 of the surrounding countries — by Lieutenant Colonel Frederick 

 Becker, Chief of the General Staff, from surveys made by him. Also 

 a pamphlet entitled " Geognostische Skizze des Grossherzogthums 

 Hessen," Three masses of quartz from Doctor's Creek, Pleasant 

 Creek — by ]Messrs. E. and W. Grant. 



Dr. Macadam intimated that Part II. of Vol. IV. was ready for 

 distribution among the members. He called attention to the fact 

 that the Transactions would in future appe£tr as the Transactions of 

 the Royal Society of Victoria. 



Professor ilcCoy made a few remarks on the fossil-like marking 

 on the masses of quartz, stating that they were not vegetable im- 

 pressions, but merely jettings of mineral matter. 



Sir Henry Barkly requested the Secretary to read a communication 

 from the Rev. W. B. Clarke on Professor McCoy's new Tauiopteris, 

 from the coal-bearing rocks of the Cape Paterson district in particular, 

 and on the evidence beaiing on the question of the age of Australian 

 coal beds in general, after which Professor McCoy read a Commentary 

 on the same. 



A discussion ensued, in which Sir Henry Barkly, Mr. Selwyn, and 

 other members took part. 



The Hon. Dr. Wilkie read a paper entitled " On the Quadrature 

 of the Circle ;" a discussion ensued, in which His Excellency, the 

 author of the paper, and Professor Irving took part. 



The Hon. John O'Shanassy, M.L.A., made some remarks on a 

 sample of cotton from Queensland, which he laid on the table. He 

 stated that the sample was gro\Mi in the vicinity of Moreton Bay, in 

 the Botanical Gardens of Brisbane, that the average yield was about 

 35 G lbs. to the acre, and that it was valued at about two shillings per 



