Minutes of Proceedings. ix 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 

 Wednesday, January 29, 1890. 



Mr. L. Peringuey, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The undermentioned gentlemen were duly elected ordinary 



Members of the Society : 



Dr. W. J. Dodds, Mr. P. Ryan, 



Rev. C. Atkinson, Mr. M. Tait, jun., 



Mr. J. A. Liebman, Mr. W. G. F airbridge, 



Mr. Gr. T. Amphlett, Mr. R. W. S. Giddy. 



The undermentioned Books were received and the thanks of the 

 Society voted to the donors : 



Bulletins de l'Academie Royale des Sciences des Lettres et des 



Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 1888-1889. 2 volumes. 

 Annuaire de l'Academie Royal des Sciences des Lettres et des 



Beaux- Arts de Belgique, 1889. 

 Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and' 



Philosophical Society, 4th series, vols. I and II. 

 Results of Meteorological Observations made in New South 



Wales during 1887. 

 Results of Rain, River and Evaporation Observations made in. 



New South Wales during 1888. 

 Estudio de la Filosofia y Riqueza de la Lengua Mexicana por el 



Presb. Augustin de la Rosa. 

 Annales del Ministerio de Fomento de la Republica Mexicana, 



Tome VIII. 

 Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, Nos. 229, 230. 

 Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society 



of South Australia, Vol. XI, 1887-88. 

 Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology, Vol. I. 

 Nouveaux Memoires de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de 



Moscou, Tome XV, Livraison 6. 

 Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria, Decade XVIII. 



The President exhibited a possible stone weapon of singular shape 

 — hatchet shape — which had been found on the beach at Simon's Bay. 



Professor Cleveland Abbe, of the United States Signal Service 

 Weather Bureau, then delivered an address on " The Modern Weather 

 Service." 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 



Wednesday, February 26, 1890. 



Mr. L. Peringuey, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 

 Dr. Schonland and Mr. H. W. Struben were duly elected ordinary 

 Members of the Society. 



