Proceedings. xi 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 



Wednesday, June 29, 1898. 



Thomas Stewart, F.G.S., M.I.C.E., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. W. L. Sclater gave notice that at the next meeting he would 

 move that in future the meetings of the Society be held in the after- 

 noon, either at 4.30 or 5 p.m., and that the day of meeting be 

 changed to Friday. 



Messrs. Chas. T. Holland (Buluwayo), C. F. Juritz, J. C. 

 Watermeyer, and C. L. W. Mansergh (Cape Town), were nominated 

 for election as ordinary members. 



Mr. Arthur Edwards was duly elected an ordinary member of 

 the Society. 



Mr. W. L. Sclater exhibited the following specimens : 



I. Skin of Helogale paruula, discovered by Wahlberg many years 

 ago in the interior of Kaffraria, and apparently not obtained 

 since until 'rediscovered in the Waterberg District in North- 

 West Transvaal, whence came the present specimen, the 

 property of the Staats Museum, Pretoria. 



II. Skin of Sciurus palliatus, the red squirrel of Zululand. The 

 specimen was obtained by Messrs. Woodward Bros., in the 

 Umgoye Forest, and presented to the South African Museum, 

 where the species was hitherto unrepresented. 



III. Stactolcema woodwardi, Sharp, a new Barbet from Zululand, 

 also obtained from Messrs. Woodward Bros. 



The President exhibited a block of Syenite from the neighbour- 

 hood of Johannesburg. 



The following additions to the Library were announced : 



Proceedings of the Eoyal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XXL, 

 Sessions 1895-97, 1896-97. Published 1898. 



The Scottish Geographical Magazine, Vol. XIV., Nos. 5, 6. 



Proceedings of the Eoyal Physical Society, Session 1896-97. 



Proceedings of the Scottish Microscopical Society, Vol. II., No. 2, 

 Session 1896-97. 



Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society, Vol. XLIL, Part 2, 1897-98. 



La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, Nos. 330-332. 



Liste des Periodiques compulses pour l'elaboration de la Biblio- 

 graphia geologica. Bruxelles, 1898. 



La Classification Decimale Appliquee a la Bibliographia Geologica. 



Bulletin de la Societe des Sciences Naturelles de l'Ouest de la 

 France, Vol. VI., Part 4, 1896 ; Vol. VII., Parts 1-3, 1897. 



