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nonplussed the miners and prospectors in the early days. The 

 reason had, of course, come to the front since, but if the men who 

 went to Johannesburg in the early days had had the remotest idea 

 of the true condition and arrangement of things underground, vast 

 sums of money would have been saved. It struck him forcibly when 

 he went to Johannesburg in 1888 that there were cuts lengthwise 

 and diagonally with the reef. If the people had only known how to 

 go to work they would have saved, as shown by subsequent results , 

 thousands of pounds. 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 

 Wednesday, October 30, 1895. 

 Mr. T. Mum, L.L.D., M.A., F.E.S. Edin., President, in the Chair- 

 Professor Thomson, Dr. Gregory, Dr. Impey, and Messrs. E. H. L. 

 Schwarz, H. P. Saunders, C. P. Lounsbury, H. Baker, and 

 D. Grove were duly elected ordinary members of the Society. 



The undermentioned presents were announced, and the thanks of 

 the Society voted to the donors : 



Journal and Proceedings of the Eoyal Society of N. S. Wales , 



Vol. XXVIII. 

 Annuaire de l'Academie Eoyale des Sciences de Belgique, 1894. 

 Bulletin de l'Academie Eoyale des Sciences de Belgique, Vols. 



XXVI., XXVII., XXVIIL, and XXIX. 

 Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, Nos. 299, 300. 

 Eeport of H.M. Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope for 1894. 

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



No. 2. 

 Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Cordoba, Tomo 



XIV., No. 2. 

 Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society, Vol. IX., Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 6. 

 Dr. Gill read a paper by Mr. A. \V. Eoberts on the variable star 

 S. Velorum, and made the following remarks : 



The variability of this star was discovered by Mr. C. Ray Woods. 

 By comparing two photographs taken at the Cape Observatory on 

 March 18, 1893, and January 20, 1894, and on February 1, 1894, 

 it was shown to be a variable of the Algol type. Mr. Eoberts finds 

 the period of the star to be 5 days 22 hrs. 24 mins. 22 sees., with 

 the probable error of + 2 seconds. The star's normal magnitude 

 for 5 days 7 hrs. is 7-f magnitude ; it then begins to decline in 

 brightness till it reaches^ 9^ magnitude, remains at that magnitude 



