ii Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 



Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Nos. 143-146. 



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

 Nos. 2, 3, 4. 



The American Anthropologist, Vol. VIII., Nos. 1 and 2. 



Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Vol. IV., 

 Part 1. 



The Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences, Occasional Papers, 

 Vol. I., Part 1. 



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

 No. 1. 



Epidemic Diseases and their Prevention in the Eastern Suburbs 

 of Sydney, by G. L. Mullins, M.A., M.D. 



Mr. Bolus exhibited specimens of a new orchid (Disperis) which 

 was found last month by Professor Bodkin, and which he proposed to 

 describe as Disperis Boclkini. This raised the number of orchids 

 found within the limits of the Cape Peninsula to about 117 — a number 

 probably not exceeded upon a like area in any part of the world. 

 Mr. Bolus remarked that he had found, on a recent visit to Geneva, 

 "that an orchid was found at the Cape exactly two hundred years ago. 



Mr. Schwarz exhibited various fossils from Clanwilliam district, 

 including some interesting specimens of Trilobites, in one of which 

 the facetted eye was particularly well shown. Specimens of the 

 various Eeptilia from the Karoo beds, mainly from Prince Albert 

 and neighbourhood, were also exhibited, and the interesting com- 

 mingling of reptilian and mammalian characters described. Some 

 casts were shown of specimens which have already been chiselled 

 ■out for Professor Seeley ; and Mr. Schwarz mentioned that he was 

 himself busy at similar work, the product of which, in the event of 

 its proving scientifically valuable, would find a place in the South 

 African Museum. 



The Chairman exhibited a few scratched pebbles from the Dwyka 

 •conglomerate. He explained that his reasons for exhibiting these 

 pebbles with striae and scratches on them were the following : 



At the last meeting of the South African Geological Society, held at 

 Johannesburg on the 2nd instant, Mr. D. Draper read a very interesting 

 paper on the Dwyka conglomerate. In the comprehensive review 

 which he gave of the various theories of its origin, he mentioned 

 also Mr. K. D. Oldham's view, according to which the fine matrix 

 was apparently deposited in quiet water, while the pebbles and 

 boulders were dropped into it from above by floating ice. Mr. Draper 

 •did not think this probable on account of the absence of striae on the 

 included fragments. " No investigator," he said, " had yet succeeded 

 in finding the striae on the included fragments." As Mr. Dunn said, 



