PROCEEDINGS. 565 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 
The certificate of one new candidate was read for the first time, 
Thirty-seven volumes, one hundred and fifteen parts, eleven 
reports, forty-five pamphlets, nineteen meteorological charts and 
four hydrographic charts, received as donations since the last 
meeting were laid upon the table and acknowledged. 
Mr, Marpen gave notice that at the next Annual General 
Meeting, he intended to move that the whole of the last paragraph 
of Rule XIV. be omitted, viz.:—‘ At the meeting held in July, 
and at all subsequent meetings for the year, a list of the names of 
all those members who are in arrears with their annual subscrip- 
tions shall be suspended in the Rooms of the Society. Members 
shall in such cases be informed that their names have been thus 
posted.” 
It was resolved that Messrs. P. N. Treseck and J. W. 
McCurcuzon be appointed Auditors for the current year. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. “On the assimilation of gold by fungoid growths,” by Prof. 
LiveRsIpgx, M.A., F.R.S. 
Some remarks were made by Messrs. J. W. McCutcheon, 
W. D. Campbell, and the President. 
- “The origin of malachite ; observations made in an abandoned 
copper mine” by Epaar Hatt, this paper was communicated 
and read by Prof. LiversipGe. 
Some remarks were made by Messrs. W. M. Hamlet, W. D. 
Campbell, and Prof. Liversidge. 
“Notes on the geology of Antarctica (Part 2)” by Prof. T.. Wi 
E. Davin, B.A., F.G.S.. W. F. SMEETH, M.A., A.R.8.M., and 
J. A, SCHOFIELD, F.C.S., A.R.S.M. 
This Paper was read by Mr. Smeeth, and some remarks were 
made by the President. 
* “On the occurrence of Artesian water in rocks other than the 
Cretaceous,” by E. F. Prrrmay, A.R.S.M. 
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