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dry land, and the Karroo sediments themselves must have been laid 

 down in a sinking basin, whose axis ran north-east. 



The Stormberg sandstones on which the Drakensberg lavas rest 

 must have been derived from a granitic region, which does not exist 

 in the north, except at too great a distance for the sediments of such 

 coarse nature to have been derived from it. There must therefore 

 have been an old Permian land to the south of our present shore-line 

 which has since sunk beneath the sea. 



Exhibits w^ere made of Photographs of Pog Crystals by Mr. C. 

 Stewart ; of Black Eain collected at Kimberley by Mr. J. Lewis ; 

 and of Volcanic Dust from Barbadoes by Mr. Lewis and Mr. 



E. H. L. SCHWAEZ. 



Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 

 August 27, 1902. 

 Mr. T. Stewart in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Messrs. T. Palmer, S. G. Campbell, H. A. Herbert, and E. W. 

 Young were elected ordinary members of the Society. 



The following nominations were made : Professor Andrew Young 

 by Messrs. Crawford and Beattie ; C. J. Moorsom, Esq., by Sir 

 David Gill and L. Peringuey. 



Mr. D. E. HuTCHiNS read a " Note of the late Storm and the 

 Warning from Argentina." 



Storms travelling from continent to continent may be traced by 

 passing ships if there are sufficient for the purpose, as is the case on 

 the Atlantic between America and Europe. Failing this, a connec- 

 tion may be established by "noting the recurrence of storms of a 

 marked type. The first storm so noted was in the case of the very 

 extraordinary storm and summer rains prevailing in January, 1901. 

 This was traced to New Zealand. 



An attempt is now being made to trace the possible connection 

 between storms leaving the Argentine and arriving at the Cape. On 

 the 1st inst. the Agricultural Department was advised by cable that 

 a storm with a barometrical reading as low as 29'6 had occurred in 

 the Argentine. This storm may reasonably be expected to connect 

 with the severe storms at the Cape on the 12th and ISthinsts., when 

 three ships were wrecked in Table Bay, and railway communication 



