■ Minutes of Proceedings xv 



Eesults of Bain, Eiver, and Evaporation Observations in New 



South Wales, 1894. 

 Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 1895, 



No. 4. 

 Eeport of Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape for 1895. 

 Occasional Papers of the Trustees of the John Slater Fund, Nos. 



1-7. 

 Transactions of the Eoyal Society of Victoria, Vol. IV. 

 Annales de la Faculte des Sciences de Marseille, Tome V., Part 4 ; 



VI., Parts 1, 2, 3. 

 Pamphlets by Mr. H. C. Eussell, B.A., F.E.S. 

 A Chart of Circumpolar Stars. 

 The Meteor of June 27, 1894. 

 A Map showing the Monthly Average Eainfall in New South 



Wales. 

 Eecent Measures of Double Stars, made at Sydney. 

 Icebergs in the Southern Ocean. 

 Design for a Photographic Transit Circle. 

 The Secretary (Mr. L. Peringuey) deposited the manuscript of a 

 bibliography of books, pamphlets, maps, and magazine articles 

 relating to South African Geography from the time of Vasco da 

 Gama to the formation of the British South Africa Company in 1888, 

 compiled by a member of. the Society, Mr. H. C. Schunke Hollway, 

 F.E.G.S. This catalogue was most exhaustive, and would prove of 

 great utility. Two such catalogues have already been published by 

 the Society, one on botanical, the other on meteorological biblio- 

 graphy. 



The President announced that the Geological Commission was 

 also having a catalogue of the geology and mineralogy of South 

 Africa published on similar lines. 



Mr. Peringuey exhibited two large stone implements, one of 

 which was evidently the work of man ; the other might prove not to 

 be so. Still there was some analogy between them. The first one 

 was presented to the museum as being a Bushman's anvil, but from 

 further inquiries it has transpired that the stone was used as a beacon 

 by the Hottentot or perhaps Bushman tribes to denote the limits of 

 their grazing or hunting ground. If a dispute arose between two 

 tribes, the chief would direct a search to be made for the beacon, 

 which would be dug up at the spot mentioned, and the claim of the 

 tribe would be thus established. The second stone had been found 

 while building the railway between Kalk Bay and Simon's Town. 

 In shape it was more symmetrical than the other, but a flat 

 •depression could still be detected on one side. This would seem 



