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Ordinary Monthly Meeting. 

 July 29, 1903. 

 Sir David Gill, K.C.B., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following nomination was made : Mr. J. Wood, from East 

 London, by Sir David Gill and L. Peringuey. 



Dr. G. B. Douglas MacDonald, Professor H. H. W. Pearson, 

 and Mr. W. E. Caley were elected ordinary members of the Society. 



Mr. E. H. L. Schwarz showed some specimens of crushed and 

 indented boulders taken by him from the conglomerates belonging 

 to the Uitenhage series in the Division of Uniondale. They were 

 illustrative of the paper he read before the Society during the early 

 part of the year dealing with certain structures produced by crushing 

 in the rocks of Cape Colony. 



Mr. Schwarz also exhibited some fossil plants found by Messrs. 

 A. W. Eogers and A. L. du Toit in the Beaufort, Ecca, and 

 Wittenberg beds in the west of the Colony. Schizoneura africana 

 Feistm., first discovered by A. G. Bain, and figured by Sir J. D. 

 Hooker, but of which no well-preserved specimens have been 

 found for many years, was met with at Bain's original locality, 

 the Great Fish Eiver, in the Eoggeveld. The other specimens 

 were a well-preserved Phyllotheca from the Ecca beds of Olivier's 

 Berg, and a Lepidodendroid plant, allied to Cyclo stigma, from the 

 Witteberg beds of Elands Vley. 



Mr. C. M. Stewart read " A Note on the Quantities Given in 

 Dr. Marloth's Paper on the Moisture Deposited from the South-east 

 Clouds," which was followed by a long discussion. 



Annual General Meeting. 

 September 9, 1903. 

 The President, Sir David Gill, K.C.B., in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the General Eeport for the year ended 

 June 30, 1903. 



The Treasurer read a statement showing a balance of 

 £330 17s. 2d. 



The Draft of a proposed Eoyal Charter for the Incorporation 

 of the Society, and Amended Bye-laws, were submitted for the 



