382 PROCEEDINGS. 
Davis, Joseph, M. Inst. C.E.; Sydney. 
Everett, William Frank ; Sydney. 
Kiddle, Hugh Charles ; Burrumbuttock East, vid Albury. 
Statham, Edwyn Joseph, Assoc. Inst. C.E.; Newtown. 
Vickery, George B.; Sydney. 
Twenty-eight volumes, one hundred and eighty-five parts, fifteen 
reports, twenty-one pamphlets and fifteen meteorological diagrams 
received as donations since the last meeting, were laid upon the 
table and acknowledged. 
The following paper was read:—“ The effect which settlement 
in Australia has produced upon Indigenous Vegetation,” Part I., 
by Alex. G. Hamitron. 
Remarks were made by Prof. Anderson Stuart, Messrs. C. 
Hedley, H. G. McKinney, W. D. Campbell, and H. C. Russell. 
Mr. Heptey exhibited several coloured drawings prepared from 
original sketches on the spot by Mr. Harry Stockdale, illustrating 
the various modes of burial practised by natives of the Alligator 
River, Northern Territory. They showed the corpses wrapped in 
Melaleuca bark, and placed on niches of rocks, among the branches 
of trees or on scaffolds erected on the plains. 
Prof. ANDERSON STUART, M.D., exhibited an improved form of 
the apparatus for demonstrating the nature of a sound-wave, and 
made from the original model constructed at the Sydney University 
by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company. The beauty 
of workmanship, and unique way in which wave motion was 
made apparent to the eye elicited much admiration. 
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1892. 
Prof. WARREN, M. Inst. C.E., President, in the Chair. 
Twenty members and three visitors were present. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 
The CHAIRMAN announced with deep regret the death of Mr. 
Robert Hunt, c.m.¢., F.G.s., Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, 
