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near the village of Sutherland, and from Saltpetre Kop. He pointed 

 out that the necks were of the Kimberley type, but that the materials 

 filling them were very various in character, and that in one case an 

 igneous rock in close connection with the pipes resembled, in so far 

 as the naked eye could judge, the melite-basalt of Spiegel Eiver, 

 which occurs in a pipe-like manner. If this resemblance on further 

 examination held good, some new light might be thrown on the 

 question of the age of the pipes of the Kimberley type. 



Dr. Gilchrist exhibited a number of deep-sea fish recently pro- 

 cured by the Government steamer Pieter Faure, and of several new 

 species of flat fish from the South African coast. The former 

 included two new species of Melanocetus, Bathysaurus ferox, and 

 several species of Scopelus. Among the latter were a new species 

 of sole recently found at Kalk Bay, Solca fulvo-marginata, and other 

 new flat fish procured during the investigation of the Pieter Faure 

 on the Natal Coast. 



After a discussion, in which Messrs. Thos. Stewart and C. Stewart 

 took part, Dr. Maberley moved that his motion " that the Society 

 takes up the matter of carrying on Dr. Marloth's investigations on 

 the amount of moisture deposited on Table Mountain by the South- 

 East Clouds " be referred to the Council. 



