492 HUGH CHARLES KIDDLE. 
PLATE XIV. 
Fig. 1. Trachyte A. No. 1 and 2, composed principally of sanidine and 
egirine. A porphyritic crystal of egirine is shown X 30 
. Olivine Basalt A. No. 3a, 3b, showing, near the centre, an 
arborescent grain of magnetite X 45. 
Fig. 3. Basaltic Andesite A. No. 6, sein a large brown hornblende 
surrounded by a layer of opacite granule 
Fig. 4. Mica Schist A. No. 5, section at ite angles to plane of 
foliation X 30 
PLATE XV. e 
Fig. 1. Basalt B. No. 5, with large pseudomorph of hornblende. On 
the left of the centre a patch of the original mineral is seen X 20. 
Fig. 2. Basalt B. No. 6, showing crystal of zoisite X 20. 
Fig. 3. Limburgite A. No.9, showing miarolitic structure, the cavities 
Heise filled with analcime. The dotted crystals are olivin lass | 
is in dark brown angular patches or filled with fine granular augite X 30. | 
Fig. 4. Limburgite, A. No. 10, glassy base without rs fine granular 
augite of No. 9. This is studded with a second generation of small 3 
; 
B 
augites anda few olivines. Two large porphyritic aia are shown X 30. 
Notes on tae RAINFALL or tue SOUTHERN RIVERINA 
1872 ro 1894. 
By Hueu Cuarues Kipp ie, F-R. Met. Soc. 
: 
[Read before the Royal Society of N. 8. Wales, December 4, 1895.] 
In order to carry out an investigation of the rainfall of a larg? 
tract of territory, two essential conditions must be complied with, 
firstly, there must be a number of willing observers, well cad 
tributed throughout the district, and secondly, some one to under- 
take the task of collecting and digesting the records thus made ‘: 
available. I have undertaken the task of doing this for souther® ' 
Riverina, and in the pages which follow I have endeavo 
