332 PROCEEDINGS. 



Stone Hatchets from the Clarence River and Cobar, also 

 Stereoscopic Views of Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island by 

 Judge Docker. 



Specimens of Quartz and other Crystals showing fine gold <fec, 

 by C. A. Benbow. 



WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 189 4. 



Prof. Threlfall, m.a., President, in the Chair. 



Thirty-four members and one visitor were present. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 



The certificates of three new candidates were read for the third 

 time, of four for the second time, and of two for the first time. 



The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary members 

 of the Society : — 



Hunt, Henry Ambrose, Second Meteorological Assistant, 



the Observatory, Sydney. 

 Rowney, Geo. Henry, a.m.i.c.e., Civil Engineer, Sewerage 



Construction Branch, Public Works Department. 

 Tooth, Arthur William, Brewer, " Ilfracombe," Burwood. 



The Chairman announced that the Council recommended the 

 election of the following gentleman as an Honorary Member of 

 the Society, viz. : — W. Baldwin Spencer, m.a., Professor of 

 Biology, University of Melbourne. 



The election was carried unanimously. 



Fourteen volumes, seventy-eight parts, eight pamphlets, eleven 

 reports, one hydrographic chart, and nineteen meteorological 

 diagrams received as donations since the last meeting were laid 

 upon the table and acknowledged. 



The following papers were read : — 

 1. " Preliminary Note on the Occurrence of Gold in the Hawkes- 

 bury Sandstone" by Prof. Liversidge, m.a., f.r.s. 

 Some remarks were made by Messrs. James Taylor, J. H. 

 Maiden, C. Moore, the Chairman, and the Author. 



