382 PROCEEDINGS. 
A letter was read from the Victorian Branch of the Royal 
Geographical Society of Australasia together with the report of a 
special meeting of the Branch held November 2nd, re proposed 
Memorial to the late Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, K.C.M.G., F.R.8. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. “On the presence of a true manna on a blue-grass, Andropogon 
annulatus, Forsk.” by R. T. BaKer, F.L.s., and Henry G. 
SMITH, F.C.S. 
Remarks were made by Messrs. G. H. Knibbs, J. T. 
Wilshire, and the President, to which the authors replied. 
2. “Remarkable hailstorm of 17 November, 1896 in parts of 
Parish of Gordon” by E. Du Faor, F.R.4.8. 
Some remarks were made by Mr. H. C. Russell. 
3. ‘‘On the determination of the “ Meridian Line by Solar obser- 
vations with any altazimuth-instrument,” by G. H. Knibbs, 
F.R.A.S., LS. 
Mr. Grimsuaw exhibited a silicious tube-like material probably 
a fulgurite, found on the sand-hills Kensington. 
