ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, xlv. 



ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER 16, 1904. 



A Special General Meeting of the Society was held 

 at the Society's House, No. 5 Elizabeth-street North, on 

 Wednesday evening, November 16th, 1904. 



O. O. Burge, m. inst. c.b., President, in the Chair. 



Eighteen members and one visitor were present. 



The President announced (1) that the Fifth Popular 

 Science Lecture 1904 on "The Nervous System in its 

 Genesis and Development," by Dr. J. Froude Flashman, 

 m.d., Honorary Lecturer in Psychological Medicine and 

 Neurology, University of Sydney, Director of the Patho- 

 logical Laboratory of the Lunacy Department, would be 

 delivered at the Royal Society's House, on Thursday, 

 November 24th, at 8 p.m. 



(2) That a Lantern Lecture on u What I saw in New 

 Zealand," by His Honor Judge Docker, would be delivered 

 at the Society's House, on Thursday, December 8th at 

 8 p.m. 



THE FOLLOWING PAPER WAS READ : 



" On the occurrence of isolated crystals of augite in the 

 tuffaceous mudstones near the top of the Upper Marine 

 Series at Gerringong," by Mr. H. G. Foxall. (Com- 

 municated by Prof. T. W. E. David, b.a., f.g.s., f.r.s.) 



The paper, gives the results of crystallographical and 

 chemical examinations of a number of isolated crystals of 

 augite, together with a short note on their occurrence. 

 The crystallographical examination shows that the forms 

 present on the crystals are [100], [010], [110] and either 

 [011] or [111], with, in some cases other small faces which 

 could not be accurately determined. The chemical com- 

 position is as follows : — 



