ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIE 



FOE THK YEAR, ]ill2. 



The ('ouiicil herewith presents to Members and Associates of the 

 Society the Annual Keisort and Details of Receii^ts and Expenditure 

 for the year 1912. 



March llth. — Papers read: (1) '"Esperanto and Science," by 

 Dr. W. T. Kendall; (2) " Oi, tlie Introduction of the Cattle-tick 

 Fever into Australia," by Piofessor J. A. Gilruth, D.V.Sc, etc.; 

 (3) " Further Observations on Onchocercus gibsoni, the Cause of 

 Worm Nodules in Cattle, "" by Professor J. A. Gilruth and Di-. 

 Georgina Sweet. 



April 11th. — Papers read: (1) "Australian and Tasmanian 

 Coleoptera Inhaljiting oi- Resorting to the Nests of Ants, Bees and 

 Termites""; Supplement, by A. M. Lea; (2) "On a New Chirido- 

 tinid of the <ienus Taeniogyrus Found in Port Pliillip Bay," by 

 E. C. Josliua ; (3) "The Occurrence and Development of Cervical 

 Ribs in Man and Some of the Manunals that have Abandoned Quafl- 

 rupedal Progressii)n." by Walter Stapler, M.D., D.V.Sc, etc. 



May 9th. — Papers read : (1) " Contributions to the Flora of Aus- 

 tralia," Part XVIII., by Professor A. J. Ewart, D.Sc, etc., and 

 Bertha Bees; (2) "Note on the Ascent and Descent of Water in 

 Trees," by Professoi- A. J. Ewart. D.Sc, etc. 



June 13th. — Lecture : " The Diamond in South Africa," by 

 Prof. E. W. Skeats, D.Sc The lecture was illustrated by lantern 

 slides and numerous specimens. 



July llth. — Papers read: (1) "An Investigation of Fifty-two 

 Tasmanian Crania, by Klaatsch's Craniotrigonometrical Methods," 

 by L. W. G. Biichnei- ; (2) "Description of Two New Ischnochitons 

 from Western Port," by A. F. Basset Hull (communicated from C. 

 J. Gabriel); (3) " Some New Victorian MoUusca," by J. H. Gatliff 

 and C. J. Gabriel; (4) "Additions to the Census of Victorian 

 Marine Mollusca,'" by J. H. Gatliff and C. J. Gabriel; (5) "Addi- 

 tional Remarks on the Psychrometric Formula," by Glennie Smeal, 

 B.Sc ; (6) " New or Little-known Fossils from the National 

 Museum, Part XV. — Some Tertiary Species," by F. Chapman, 

 A.L.S. ; (7) " Notes on Some ' Stringy Bark' Eucalyptus Oil, and 

 the Occurrence of Eucalyptus cf>nisideniana near Melbourne," bv 



