ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



FOR THE YEAE 1904. 



The Council of the Royal Society herewith presents to the 

 Members of the Society the Annual Report and Statement of 

 Receipts and Expenditure for the year 1904. 



Meetings were held as follows : 



March 10. — Annual Meeting and Election of Officers. Ordin- 

 ary Meeting. Exhibits: 1. .Moa Feathers, by Professor W. 

 Baldwin Spencer. 2. Some curiously-grown shells and casts of 

 shells in gypsum, by F. Chapman — on l)ehalf of the Trustees of 

 the National Museum. 3. Spinthariscope, by Professor A\'. I/. 

 Kernot. 



April 21 — Special Meeting in conjunction with the Field 

 Naturalists' Club, at which the Mueller Medal, awarded by the 

 Australasian Associatit)n, was formallv handed over to Mr. A. W. 

 Howitt. 



]May 12. — Papei-s : 1. " Contributions to our knowledge of the 

 Anatomy of Notoryctes typhlops," by Dr. Georgina Sweet. 2. 

 " Relations of the Granite and Silurian Rocks of Dandenong," 

 by J. M. Sutherland. Exhibits : Two rare Birds of Paradise, 

 Pteridophora alberti and Aslaphia nigra (male), by J. A. Kershaw 

 — for Trustees of National Museum. 



June 9 — Papers: 1. "The Alternate Current Transformer," 

 by Professor T. R. Lyle. 2. "Revision of the Australian 

 Aphodiides," by Rev. T. Blackburn. 3. "Tabulated List of 

 the Fossil Cheilostomatous Polyzoa in the Victorian Tertiary 

 Deposits," by C. M. Maplestone. 4. "The Antiquity of Man in 

 Victoria," by Professor J. W. Gregory. 



July 14. — Papers: 1. Catalogue of the Marine Shells of 

 Victoria, Part 8," by G. B. Pritchard and J. H. Gatliff. 2. 

 " Contributions to the Palaeontology of the Older Tertiaries of 

 Victoria — Gastropoda, Part 2," by G. B. Pritchard. 3. "Ter- 

 tiary Fish of Australia, Pait 1," by F. Chapman and G. B. 



