MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS. 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 

 Tuesday, August 24, 1886. 



Ven. Aechdeacon Lightfoot, B.D., in the Chair. 



The receipt was announced of a pamphlet by Dr. Emil Cohen 

 (corresponding member of the Society) entitled " Ueber die von dem 

 Eingeborenen Siid-Afrikas verwendeten Producte des Mineralreichs " 

 and the thanks of the Society were voted to the donor. 



An extract was read from a letter from the Rev. G-. H. R. Fisk 

 respecting the tortoises he had sent to England. Two of them were 

 found to be new to science. 



Mr. Peringuey said he had found a new tortoise in Namaqu aland, 

 and Dr. Marloth had sent him some from Damaraland of which four 

 were undoubtedly new. 



Dr. Gibbon's list of South African MoUusca was presented to the 

 Society. 



Mr. Finlay announced his discovery of Winnecke's periodical Comet 

 on August 19. 



Dr. Shaw exhi-bited a petrified branch picked up at Hout's Bay, 

 and afterwards read his paper on the "Sand Glaciers in S. Africa."" 

 He prefaced it by an account of the sand-dunes on the East Coast of 

 England and West of Scotland. 



Mr. J. C. Silberbauer described the petrification of a large forest 

 in California, 1,000 feet above sea level. 



Mr. Peringuey said that some sand-glacier formation was to be 

 found at Kalk Bay. 



Mr. Sawerthal had seen specimens, like the one exhibited by Dr 

 Shaw, in the Drakensberg. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to Dr. Shaw. 



Mr. Woods gave an account of the photographic observations to 

 be made at the Royal Observatorv on the occasion of the Eclipse of 

 the Sun on August 29. 



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