Xlviii. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



that district. His remarks were illustrated with a large 

 number of rock specimens. 



Monthly Meeting, 8th October, 1913. 

 Mr. J. E. Oarne, in the Chair. 

 Seven members and two visitors were present. 

 Prof. David was absent owing to illness in his family. 



Mr. R. H. Oambage exhibited a specimen of granite from 

 Bellenden Ker Mountain, Queensland, and some photographs 

 of the Upper Cretaceous strata in the same State. 



Mr. G. W. Card exhibited a number of specimens of 

 miniature faults occurring in a tuff from Pokolbin. He also 

 exhibited a new geologist's slide-rule. 



Mr. F. Watkin Brown exhibited a peculiar ironstone 

 concretion shaped like an eel from the Wianamatta Shales 

 at Enfield near Sydney. 



Monthly Meeting, 12th November, 1913. 

 Prof. T. W. E. David in the Chair. 

 Seven members and six visitors were present. 



The Chairman, on behalf of the members, welcomed Mr. 

 W. Anderson of the Geological Survey of Natal and 

 formerly of the Geological Survey of N.S. Wales. 



Dr. C. Anderson exhibited specimens of wind-worn 

 pebbles (Dricanter) from Wanganui, N.Z. 



Mr. G. W. Card exhibited native bismuth, and bismuth- 

 mite from Kingsgate, N.S.W. Wolfram altering into 

 tungstite from Wolfram, N.S.W. Sill-rock with fossil 

 Glossopterls from Helensburgh. N.S.W. 



The Chairman opened a discussion on "The effect of pre- 

 valent winds in controlling land forms." He referred 

 particularly to the effect which the prevailing westerly 

 winds must have had in the different geological periods in 

 influencing the positions of maximum sedimentation. 



