xlviii Minutes of Proceedings. 



Catalogue of Canadian Plants, Part 4, Endogens. 



Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of 

 South Australia, Vol. X. 

 Mr. Bolus exhibited a specimen of Vaccinium exul, a new species 

 of that plant, found at the Devil's Kantoor on the Drakensberg, 30 

 miles from Barberton, 5,400 feet above sea level. No plant of that 

 genus had ever been found previously so far south in the Southern 

 Hemisphere. It was noticed that the fringe of mountains which ran 

 round a large portion of Africa was the pathway of connection of 

 plants. It was always on the mountain ranges that Northern Hemis- 

 phere plants were found in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa. 

 When this migration of plants took place had never yet been deter- 

 mined. 



Prof. Guthrie stated that the discovery of this plant was especially 

 interesting as a new fact in the geographical distribution of plants 

 from which the history of the world could be written. 



Dr. Gill then gave a most interesting account of recent results of 

 the Geodetic Survey of South Africa, which had now been completed 

 from Natal to Port Elizabeth. He first gave a short history of 

 various earlier attempts at survey in the Colony, and then proceeded 

 to describe the method of measuring the base lines, the instruments 

 employed, and the accuracy obtained. He stated that the Transvaal 

 had voted £10,000 for a similar survey and it had been proposed that 

 such a survey should be carried out in Bechuanaland, so that soon 

 South Africa would have a survey that would be a credit to the 

 country. 



Mr. Marquard, Prof. Guthrie, and Mr. Justice Buchanan made 

 some remarks to which Dr. Gill replied and the meeting closed with 

 the usual vote of thanks. 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 



Wednesday, May 29, 1889. 

 Mr. W. H. Finlay, M.A., F.R.A.S., President, in the Chair. 



The African traveller and hunter, Mr. F. C. Selous, gave a most 

 interesting account of a journey made by himself beyond the Zambesi 

 to the country of the Mashukulumbwe. 



