x Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 



Abhandlungen u. Berichte XXX des Vereins fiir Naturkunde zu 

 Kassel, 1894-95. 



Journal of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History, Vol. XVIII., 

 Nos. 1 and 2. 



The American Anthropologist, Vol. VIII., No. 4. 



Eeport of British Association, 1895. 



The President announced that two days after the last meeting a 

 gentleman wrote to him stating that he had placed £25 in the hands 

 of an agent to procure the necessary apparatus to show the Society 

 the new discovery of photographing in colours. 



He also stated that in a few weeks the tubes would be received 

 to illustrate Professor Eontgen's process of photographing through 

 opaque objects. 



The Chairman exhibited some diagrams of rainfall at the Eoyal 

 Observatory from 1841 to the present time. 



Mr. Finlay made some remarks on the relationship between 

 sunspots and rainfall. 



Dr. Marloth said that members would remember that last year 

 he had exhibited a butterfly with the pollinium of an orchid on its 

 body. Since then he had captured a butterfly of the same species 

 with two pollinia of another Disa on its body, so that this occurrence 

 was not so rare as was thought on the previous occasion. 



Dr. Marloth then read Dr. Schonland's papers : 



1. On a case of Peloria in a South African orchid (Disa patula). 



2. The structure of the flower and the method of pollination in 



Grassula canescens, Schult. 



3. On some points in the morphology of Aizoacea. 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 



Wednesday, April 29, 1896. 



Mr. T. Muir, LL.D., M.A., F.B.S. Edin., President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. W. L. Sclater, M.A., and E. T. Littlewood, M.A., 

 were duly elected ordinary members of the Society. 



Dr. Corstorphine stated that in connection with the work of the 

 geological survey of the Colony he was able to make a statement of 

 considerable scientific value, and of the utmost importance to all 

 interested in the stratigraphy of South Africa. In the clay-slate and 

 grit series underlying the sandstone of Table Mountain, and into 

 which the granite of this portion of the Colony has been intruded, 

 till now no fossils had been discovered. He was glad to say that 



