200. PROCEEDINGS. 
to the south of any place where such corals were known to be 
formed on the Australian coast, there must be some peculiar con- 
dition of temperature in that locality to account for their oceur- 
rence—probably a warm current from the north. The collection 
included several new species, among others that named the “brain 
coral,” which would be subsequently described by him, and which 
known to be in the midst of a warm current, flowing south from 
the Taian Sse an. 
The DENT announced that it had been determined by the 
Council that the Library should next session be opened on week- 
days from 1.30 o’clock p.m. to 6 o’clock p.m., with the exception 
of Saturday, when it would be open from 9 o’clock a.m. to 1.30 
o’clock p,m. 
