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Mr. Bolus suggested that Mr. Peringuey and Dr. Marloth should 

 make some experiments on this alleged antidote and these gentlemen, 

 expressed their willingness to do so. 



Mr. Finlay gave a short account of the large Comet which was 

 visible in the South-West. He stated that its path showed it was a 

 member of a system of comets which pass very close to the sun, a 

 system which includes the Comets 1843 I., 1880 I., and 1882 II. 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 



Wednesday, March 21, 1887. 



Mr. H. Bolus, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The following presents were announced and the thanks of the 

 Society voted to the donors : 



Annuario del Observatorio Astronomico Nacional de Tacubaya 



(Mexico) 1887. 

 Bulletin de la Societe Tmperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 



1886, No. 3. 

 Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South 



Wales, Vol. XIX, 1885. 

 Notes on Insects apparently of the genus Margarodes, Lansd, 

 Guilding, by R. Trimen, F.R.S. 

 Mr. Trimen exhibited some ground pearls from ants' nests. Similar 

 shells from the West Indies sixty years ago were sent to the British 

 Museum. Mr. Trimen had secured three specimens of the insect 

 {coccus), and it was peculiar as having no mouth. Very little is 

 known about the insect at present. 



Mr. Ponder exhibited some microscopic photographs taken by 

 himself. 



Mr. Bolus then read his " Notes, Chiefly Botanical, on the country 

 between Delagoa Bay and Barberton." 



Dr. Marloth said that several of the plants mentioned by Mr. Bolus 

 had been found by him in Damaraland. 



An interesting discussion followed, in which Messrs. Peringuey, 

 Trimen, Merriman, and Dr. Murray took part. 



The meeting closed with an unanimous vote of thanks to Mr. Bolus; 

 for his paper. 



