xxxii Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 



Dr. G. S. Corstorphine communicated Mr. T. E. Sutton's paper: 

 " An Inquiry into the Origin of the Mud Eushes in the De Beer's 

 Mine." 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 



Wednesday, April 28, 1897. 



Present:— Mr. T. Muir, LL.D., M.A., F.E.S.E., President, and 

 twenty- two members. 



Dr. J. W. B. Gunning, of Pretoria, and Messrs. E. J. Sutton, of 

 Kimberley, and D. E. Hutchins, of Cape Town, were duly elected 

 ordinary members of the Society. 



The following accessions to the Library were announced : 



La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, No. 318. 



Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Cordoba, 

 Tome XV. 



Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zurich, 

 1896 Supplem. 



Neujahrsblatt herausg. v. d. Naturforsch. Gesellsch. in Zurich 

 (99 stes NeujahrsbL). 



Mons. Eaffray announced that he had been instructed by the 

 French Government to make known to the medical authorities of 

 the Cape Colony that Dr. Calmette, of the Pasteur Institute, has 

 now succeeded in obtaining a sufficient number of horses immunised 

 against snake poison to allow of the distribution to medical establish- 

 ments or private individuals of doses of serum, as has been done for 

 some time past for the anti-diphtheric serum. 



Mr. A. P. Trotter read his paper on " The disturbance of the 

 Submarine Cable by the Cape Town Tramways." 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 



Wednesday, May 26, 1897. 



Present :— Mr. T. Muir, LL.D., M.A., F.E.S.E., President, and 

 thirteen members. 



The following accessions to the Library were announced : 



Smithsonian Eeport, 1894. Washington, 1896. 



Eeport of the U. S. National Museum for 1894. Washington, 



1896. 

 Bulletin U. S. National Museum, No. 47, Part 1. Washington, 



1896. 



