Remarks were.made by Mr. G. H. Knibbs, urging the 
desirableness of employing the phonetic system, with 
necessary modifications, of the Association Internationale 
Phonétique, so as to make permanent the knowledge of the 
aboriginal language before it was too late, the present 
system of phonetically rendering it being imperfect. Also 
by Mr. J. H. Maiden, on the desirableness of exact identi- 
fication of the plants of which Mr. Mathews gave the 
aboriginal names. The President made a few remarks and 
Mr. Mathews replied. 
Xiv. - ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 
2. ‘‘Notes on Tide Gauges, with description of a new one,”’ 
by G. H. HALLIGAN, F.G.S. 
The author gave a brief history of the development of 
the automatic tide recorders, pointing out the manner in 
which errors, inseparable from their construction, crept 
into the records and the difficulty of locating them. The 
pneumatic gauge was referred to, and the difference 
between a permanent and a temporary installation of a 
gauge of this description was illustrated. A new gauge 
of the author’s design was then shown, and its advantages 
pointed out, and the many troubles met with in the con- 
struction of such an instrument were referred to. The 
cost of the new design (which has not been patented) is 
about one-fifth of that of the best English, French, and 
American machines for similar purposes. 
Remarks were made by Messrs. C. O. Burge, H. C. 
Russell, J. H. Maiden, and Percy W.Shaw. Mr. Halligan 
replied. | 
EXHIBITS. 
Mr. RUSSELL exhibited (1) a series of photographs show- 
ing the effect of the recent storm at Cootamundra. (2) A 
peculiar dendritic figure, which had formed at the bottom 
of a rain-gauge lately in use on the Hunter River. 
Remarks as to the probable cause of this formation were 
made by Prof. Liversidge. 
