ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



FOE THE YEAE 1906. 



The Council herewith j^reseiits to ^Members of the Society tlie 

 Annual Report and Details of Receipts and Expenditure for the 

 year 1906. 



The following meetings were held : — 



March 8. — Annual Meeting and Election of Officers. Ordi- 

 nary Meeting. Mr. J. A. Smith exhibited and described a new 

 method of testing lenses during their figuring. Mr. A. E. Kitson 

 exhibited some snakes from Western Australia which were stated 

 to have killed themselves by self-inflicted bites. Also some dried 

 plants which were reported to have grown several inches in length 

 while in the Herbarium cases. 



April 19. — Mr. J. A. Smith delivered a lecture on "The flow 

 rf fluids, illustrated by stream-line methods." The lecture was 

 illustrated by experiments. 



May 10. — Papers read : 1. " Some little-known Victorian 

 Decapod Crustacea, with descriptions of new species, No. 3," by 

 S. W. Fulton and F. E. Grant. 2. " Census of Victorian Decapod 

 Crustacea, Part 1 : Brachyura ; " by S. W. Fulton and F. E. Grant. 

 3. " Xew Species of Victorian Marine Mollusca," by J. H. GatlifF. 



June li. — Paper read: " Micrometric measurements by a 

 projected scale," by Dr. F. Clendinnen. Illustrated by 

 experiments. 



July 12.— Lecture by Prof. W. C. Kernot, M.A., M.C.E., on 

 " Balloons and Airships." Illustrated by lantern slides. 



Aug. 9. — Lecture by Kerr Grant, M.Sc, " The Vibrations of 

 Jets." Illustrated by numerous experiments. 



September 9. — Lecture by W. N. Kernot, B.C.E., " Some 

 applications of the Electro-magnet." Illustrated by lantern slides 

 and by numerous e.xperiments. 



October 11 — Papeis read : 1. "New or little-known Victorian 

 Fossils in the National Museum ; Part 8. — Some Palaeozoic Brittle 



