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of all interest in the study of science in the Colony, and expressed the 
hope that something would be done in the near future to remedy the 
existing state of things. 
ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 
Wednesday, October 25, 1893. 
Mr. R. MARtotuH, Ph.D., M.A., President, in the Chair. 
Professor REGINALD SMITH was duly elected an ordinary member of 
the Society. 
The undermentioned donations were announced, and we thanks of 
the Society voted to the donors: 
The American Anthropologist, Vol. VI., Nos. 1 and 2. 
Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, No. 276. 
Journal of the Cincinatti Society of Natural History, Vol. XV., 
Nos. 3 and 4, Vol. XVI., No. 1. 
Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, Vol. III. 
Evolution of the Colours of the North American Land Birds. 
Jahrbiicher der K. K. Central Anstalt fiir Meteorologie und 
Erdmagnetismus, 1891. 
Sitzungberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 
Band C., Heft 8-10; Cl, Heft 1-6. 
Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum, No. 40. 
Publications of the U. S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution : 
Instructions for collecting Mollusks, and other Useful Hints for 
the Conchologist. 
Directions for collecting and preserving Insects. 
Directions for collecting Reptiles and Batrucians. 
Directions for collecting, preparing, and preserving Birds’ Eggs, 
and nests. 
Directions for collecting Recent and Fossil Plants. 
Directions for collecting Birds. 
Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum, Vol. XIV., 1891. 
Smithsonian Report, U. 8. National Museum, 1890. 
Proceedings of American Philosophical Society, Nos. 139, 140. 
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1892, 
Part 2. 
Professor GUTHRIE exhibited a piece of recently petrified wood found 
.in False Bay, and explained that the process is due to impregnation of 
the wood with lime and silica. 
Dr. MARLOTH made some remarks on the process leading to such 
petrification. 
