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its inception to its developing its wings, and also the effect produced 

 upon the fibrils of the vine by the puncture of the insect, and con- 

 cluded by proposing that the Society should appoint a Committee of 

 three gentlemen who would keep them en courant with the Phi/lloxera 

 question. He proposed as members of the Committee Mr. Trimen, 

 Prof. MacOwan, and Mr. Bolus. 



Dr. Grill seconded the motion, and suggested that the name of Mr. 

 Peringuey should be added. Wich this addition the motion was 

 carried. 



Mr. Trimen then made some remarks on the introduction of the 

 insect into Prance, and the various means adopted there for its extir- 

 mination. He strongly advocated the introduction of the American 

 vine. 



After some remarks by Dr. Gill, Dr. Beck, Mr. Trimen, Sir J. H. 

 de Villiers, and the President, a vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. 

 Peringuey, and some time was spent by the meeting in inspecting 

 several of the insects through the microscope. 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 

 Wednesday, February 24, 1886. 

 PiioF. MacOwan, B.A., F.L.S., President, in the Chaik. 



Mr. J. C. Silberbauer was elected an Ordinary Member, and Mr. E. 

 G. Alston a Corresponding Member of the Societ}^ 



The Bev. G. H. P. Pisk exhibited some Chameleons which he had 

 received from the Karroo, near Beaufort West. One of these had a 

 curious membrane at the back of the neck which enabled it to turn 

 its head in any direction without moving its bod3^ 



Mr. Cairncross exhibited a diagram shewing the connection between 

 the rainfall during the last year and the rise of the springs near Cape 

 Town. 



Mr. Gamble called attention to the maps which had been sent to the 

 Indian and Colonial Exhibition shewing the distribution of rain over 

 the Colony, Natal, Basutoland, &c. 



Mr. Gamble exhibited, for Mr. E. J. Dunn, some Fulgurites (Light- 

 ning tubes) found on the west side of the Lange Bergen, Griqiialand 

 AVest. They were found in a tract of white siliceous sand, and are 

 formed by the electric fluid fusing the sand where it strikes the earth. 



Prof. MacOwan exhibited (from Mr. Bain) a specimen of IlycnancJw 

 glohosa, Th., a poisonous EupJiorhiacea, formerly used by Boers for 

 destroying wild animals, before str3'chnine was introduced. Also 

 (from Mr. Groom, Knysna) specimens of semi-fossilized copal, which 

 is thrown up, in large quantities, on the beach in the neighbourhood of 

 the Knysna. Reference was made to a letter b}^ Sir J. Kirk, in 

 Linnean Society's Journal, 1868, March 20, giving a description of 

 the true copal of Zanzibar. , 



Dr. Gill exhibited photographs of instruments taken by J\[r. C. Ray 

 Woods for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. 



Mr. T. Stewart then read some notes on the " Erosion of the Camp- 

 bell Valley, Kaaji Rand." 



Dr. Gill then described the application of Pliotograph}' to Astro- 

 nomy, and exhibited a number of photographs of stars, moon, sun, 

 &c. 



