Sept, i, 1885. J 
The Australasian Scientific Magazine . 
6 3 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF SOCIETIES. 
VICTORIA. 
The Geological Society of Australasia. 
The monthly meeting of the Geological Society of Australasia was held 
on Friday, 14th August, at the offices of the society, Market Street, Mel- 
bourne. Sir Arthur Nicolson, Bart, was in the chair. After the ordinary 
routine business had been transacted, Mr. Graham Mitchell, M.R.C.V.S., 
and Mr. T. W. Kendall, M.R.C.V.S., were elected members of the society. 
The Honorary Librarian reported that he had received sixteen volumes and 
fifteen maps as donations to the library of the society, from Messrs. A. J. 
Skene, T. S. Bulmer, R. T. Litton, and C. H. Wilkinson; and from the 
Under-Secretary for Mines, New South Wales, and the Secretary for Crown 
Lands, South Australia. A vote of thanks was passed to these gentlemen for 
their donations. The Honorary Secretary read a letter which he had received 
from the Secretary of the South African Exhibition, which is to be held at 
Port Elizabeth. The writer states, “ I am desired by the Executive Com- 
mittee of the South African Exhibition to thank you for your liberal offer 
to furnish for exhibition here specimens of your mineral and other 
resources, which they most gladly accept. Of course, no charge will be 
made to you for space. I shall be careful to set aside a special stand for 
your exhibits.” The meeting thanked the Honorary Secretary for his action 
in this matter. The exhibits are to be sent by the next French mail 
steamer. 
The Royal Society. 
A meeting of the Royal Society of Victoria was held on Thursday, the 13th 
of August. Professor Kernot (president) was in the chair. An abstract 
was given by one of the Honorary Secretaries (Mr. A. Sutherland) of a 
lengthy paper by Mr. H. d’Esterre Taylor, on “Uniformity in the Collection 
of Statistics.” Mr. Taylor pointed out the vast amount of trouble caused 
to compilers by the totally different systems adopted in different countries in 
