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PROCEEDINGS. 223 
WEDNESDAY, 5 DECEMBER, 1883. 
Hon. Professor Situ, C.M.G., President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and con 
The ‘ssctelieg gentlemen were duly elected ordinary members 
of the Society :— 
on William H. H., Sydney. 
Ryley, J., Rutherford, M.D., Mudgee. 
Shellshear, Walter, A.M.I. CE. , Paddington. 
The certificates of four new candidates were read for the second 
time, and of three for the first time. 
It was resolved that Messrs. W. G. seve and P. N. Trebeck 
be appointed Auditors for the current yea 
eventy-eight donations of books, &c., ae eight charts were 
laid upon the table. 
Professor Liversidge announced that a communication had been 
received from the Franklin Institute respecting the International 
dem Exhibition in Philadelphia, to open September 2nd, 
A paper by Baron Ferd. von Mueller, K.C.M.G., M.D., Ph. D. 
ERS., &e., on “Additions to the Census of the Genera of Plants 
genous to Australia,” was rea 
Professor Smith exhibited Stoke’s apparatus for producing 
attraction and repulsion by vibrations of air. 
Specimens collected by Dr. H. B. Guppy, of H.M.S. “Lark,” 
Were exhibited and described by Professor Liversidge °3 they 
included flints and flint cores from the islands of Ulana and Ugi. 
A large mass of flint nearly 4 tbs in weight, from Ugi Island, 
and some waters from hot springs on the “islands of Simbo and 
Santa Anna. 
Professor Liversidge drew attention to the form of the large 
Mass of flint, which clearly showed omit of artificial working, and 
Was evidently a large stone axe or tomahaw 
e following notes on their coeetriis are from Dr. Guppy’s 
ae to Professor Tordicina 
flin Ugi, embedded 1 or 2 
inches below the a nag eT es a as oar g Hee bo ath when the vg is 
distur urposes of euitivation, I Ay ve seen similar flints from 
Bpposite coast of St. Christov 
Ugi cece va Ly ye on the ne land neh fringes the pes eo besigel 
— Relevati 5 to 12 or 15 feet above the high-water level : fragments of 
wh “oat a rigs of shells are se nag intermingled in wie oni 
ts are fou 
ili \ 0 * * Z 4. 
Prevailing rock of Shes lalecoliod Ugi is an earthy foraminiferous limestone. 
