xxviii Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 



Messrs. F. Treleaven, Isaac Meiring, and Dr. Hugo were duly 

 elected ordinary members of the Society. 



The following accessions to the Library were announced, and the 

 thanks of the Society voted to the donors : 



Annual Eeport of the Geological Survey of Canada, Vol. VII., 



1894, with Maps. 

 Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University of Upsala, 



Vol. II., 1896. 

 La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, Nos. 313-315. 

 Jahresbericht des Vereins fur Erdkunde z. Dresden, Vol. XXV., 



1896. 

 Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 



1896, Part 2. 

 Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philos. 



Society, 1896-97. 

 Transactions of the Texas Academy of Sciences, Vol. I., 1892-95, 



4 Parts. 

 Annuaire de la Academia Mexicana, Vol. I., 1895. 

 Boletin Mensual del Observatorio Meteorologico Central de 



Mexico, 1896. 

 Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Vol. VII., Nos. 68, 69. 

 Sundry newspapers sent by Dr. Emil Holub. 



Dr. Gill exhibited some Eontgen rays photographs, and Mr. 

 Fourcade a calculating machine, and made some remarks. 



Mr. Schwarz exhibited some specimens of fossil plants from 

 South Africa. 



The first set came from the lower Sternberg beds, that is the 

 coal-bearing series of the group. They were obtained from a 

 disused drive in the Cyphergat mine, and consisted of specimens of 

 Thinnfeldia odontopleroides, Feistm., which is characteristic of this 

 zone. 



Associated with these was a cone-like fruit of doubtful affinity, 

 but which is unknown from beds of equivalent age in India or 

 Australia. A large slab of black shale covered with grass-like 

 impressions was then shown from the same locality, in a zone 

 immediately below that of the Thinnfeldia. 



Mr. Schwarz had removed a thin layer of shale from one-half 

 of the slab, exposing a fine stem of a Calamite with four whorls, 

 the internodes being about two inches in length. The grass-like 

 impressions were seen to be attached at their bases to the nodes of 

 the Calamite stem, and thus are conclusively proved to be the foliage 

 leaves of that genus. 



