134- Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



Thursday, May 10th. 

 The President in the chair. 



Messrs. Wm. Bage, W. H. Nimmo, S. C. Candler, and 

 Arthur Dendy, M.Sc, F.L.S., were nominated as members. 



The Hon. Librarian announced that since the last 

 meeting, thirtj^-four scientific publications had been added 

 to the library. 



The President announced that Mr. Lucas had resigned 

 his position as Member of Council, owing to pressure of 

 work. Mr. White proposed, and Professor Spencer seconded, 

 a motion that Mr. Topp be elected to the vacant position. 

 The motion was carried. 



Mr. RusDEN read a paper by Mr. T. Wakelin, B.A., of 

 New Zealand, on " An experiment to show how the earth 

 is made to gravitate towards the Sun." Mr. White re- 

 marked that Mr. Wakelin wished to go beyond the theory 

 of gravitation. 



Mr. RusDEN read a paper by the same author, on " The 

 Dynamical Ecjuivalent of a Pressure." 



The President said he thought the author failed to 

 appreciate the true conditions of such an experiment. The 

 results of his experiment would vary in accordance with the 

 way in which his apparatus was made. 



On the motion of Professor Spencer, seconded by Mr. 

 Griffiths, the standing orders were suspended to allow of 

 Mr. Dendy reading his paper on " The Anatomy of an 

 Arenaceous Polyzoon." 



The President congratulated Mr. Dendy on having so 

 soon after his arrival in the colony, made an original con- 

 tribution to biological science. 



Mr. Bracebeidge Wilson had for long known the animal 

 without suspecting its polyzoon nature. 



Professor Spencer referred to the important work carried 

 on by Mr. Wilson in his biological explorations in the 

 waters of Port Phillip, in which he had discovered many 

 new and remarkable forms. 



Professor Spencer read a paper on " The Presence of a 

 Fluke in the Ecw of the Common Fowl." 



Mr. Lucas did not quite understand how the adult fluke 

 got into the egg. 



