MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
SOUTH AFRICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 
ORDINARY MoNTHLY MEETING. 
Wednesday, August 31, 1892. 
Mr. D. Giiu, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
The Rev. H. MtLuer, of East London, was elected an ordinary 
member of the Society. 
The undermentioned presents were announced, and the thanks of the 
Society voted to the donors : 
Catalogue of Canadian Plants, Part 6—Musci. 
Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, No. 261. 
An Appeal to the Canadian Institute on the Rectification of Parlia- 
ment, by Sandford Fleming, C.M.G., LL.D. 
Annual Archeological Report and Canadian Institute, Vol. IL, 
Part 2. 
_ The Star Camera of the Sydney Observatory. 
Results of Rain and River Observations, New South Wales, 1890. 
Results of Meteorological Observations, New South Wales, 1889. 
Notes on the Rate of Growth of some Australian Trees. 
Preparations now being made in Sydney Observatory for the Photo- 
graphic Chart of the Heavens. 
A Cyclone System or Tornado in the Gwydir District. 
Double Star Measures. 
The Rev. G. H. R. Fisk read a letter from Dr. Sclater, Secretary 
of the Zoological Society of London, of which the following is an 
extract : 
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