220 PROCEEDINGS. 
The following letter from Dr. Louis Pasteur was read :— 
[ Translation. ] 
My dear Sir and Colleague, Paris, 3 July, 1883. 
T have the pleasure to acknowledge the re bia: rot your letter, in 
which ar inform me that the Royal Society of New South Wales has 
elected m honorary member of the Society. Iam very sensible of this 
m 
worthy of this my y. Ibeg you to accept, my dear sir, my sentiments of 
the highest consideration, sad I shall be an if you will have the goodness 
to convey the expression of my gratitude to the members of the Society. 
cool 
Member of the French ‘Academy and Academy of Sciences. 
To Professor Liversidge. 
Hon. Secretary Royal Society of New South Wales. 
Eighty-nine donations were laid upon the table and acknow- 
ledged. 
The following papers were read :— 
. “Notes on the Genus Macrozamia, with Descriptions of 
some new Species,” by CHARLES Moors, F.L.S., V.-P. 
2. “A List of Double Stars,” by H. C. RUssELL, B.A., 
F.R.A.S. 
3. “Some Facts connected with Irrigation,” by H.C. RussELL, 
B.A., F.R.A.S. 
4. “On des Discolouration of White Bricks made from cer- 
tain clays in the neighbourhood of Sydney,” by E. H. 
D.Sc. 
A discussion took place tit the last-named paper, in which the 
following eae Ss took part, viz. :—Messrs. J. Henry, Dr. R. B. 
ea gel Trebeck, C. $8. Wilkinson, and Dr. Rennie. 
Bikes emer , F.R.S., exhibited and described two new 
Universal Models for ewig the orgy ree axes, which he 
d had constructed for lecture purposes 
Mr. J. K. Hume exhibited a sélection of Carboniferous Marine 
Fossils which he had collected from the carboniferous beds at 
Cataract Creek, near Mount Wellington, Hobart, Tasmania. 
Mr. C. 8. Witxrssoy said that these fossils were some of the 
finest specimens he had ever seen. Judging from his experience 
in this Colony, he believed that in the locality where these spec! 
mens were found, boring operations might lead to the discovery of 
workable deposits of coal or kerosene shale. 
Professor Liversipce stated that the coal which was worked 
ed and disturbed by 
lity, he was inclined to think that any deposits of oil-soa) 
must have also been more or less deteriorated in quality and value. 
