XIV. ABSTRACT OP PROCEEDINGS. 



EXHIBITS : 



1. Mr. J. H. Maiden exhibited six large tropical plants 

 displaying culture and interesting morphological points. 



2. Mr. O. A. Sussmilch exhibited a frog (species undeter- 

 mined) said to have been obtained from the inside of a 

 hollow ironstone concretion. This concretion was obtained 

 in quarrying in the Tamworth district, at a depth of eight 

 feet below the surface. The concretion had no visible 

 opening, and the frog is alleged to have been inside, alive, 

 and lived for two minutes after the concretion was broken 

 open. The walls of the hollow concretion have a thickness 

 of three-eighths of an inch, and there was sufficient space 

 within for the frog to turn around only. The circumstances 

 of the finding are vouched for by two quarrymen who 

 obtained it. One half of the hollow concretion was also 

 exhibited. 



3. Mr. John Barling exhibited a large Rainfall Chart, 

 10 X 14 feet, showing the Sydney rainfall for the last fifty- 

 eight years, and gave the following note : — 



Summary op Sixty-one Years' Records of Sydney Rainfall. 

 Their average for the first six months being 29 inches, 

 „ „ „ second „ „ 19 



Yearly 48 

 These are supplementary to his paper of 2nd December, 1908. 



It would seem that when the rainfall for the first six months 

 of any year is less than 20 inches, the total for the year is less 

 than 48 inches. The years 1846-49-56-62, 65-72-80-86-88-1902-3- 

 6-8-9 — fourteen years in all — each had less than 20 inches in their 

 first six months, and each had less than 48 inches in the year. 



1916 has also had less than 20 inches (17*20) for its first half 

 year. It seems reasonable to suppose that it will have less than 

 48 inches for the year, that is, it will be an under-average year. x 



1 Mr. Barling subsequently reported that the rainfall for the year 1916 

 amounted to 44-88 inches. — [Eds.] 



