MEETINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY. 



1894. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



Thursday, 8f/i March. 

 The President (Professor Kernot) in the chair. 



Annual Report of the Coincil for tiik Year 1893. 



The Council of the Royal Society herewith pre.sents to the 

 INIembers of the Society the Annual Report and Balance Sheet 

 for the Year 1893. 



The following Meetings were held, and Papers read during the 

 Session : 



March 9. — "Linguistic Points of Contact between the Aborig- 

 ines of Australia and those of New Guinea," by Rev. John 

 Mathew. " Notes on the Eocene Strata of the Bellarine 

 Peninsula, with brief references to other deposits," by T. S. 

 Hall, M.A., and C. B. Pritchard. 



April 13. — "The Lizards Indigenous to Victoria," by A. H. S. 

 Lucas, M.A., B.Sc, and C. Frost, F.L.S. (an interesting collection 

 of Victorian Lizards was exhibited). " Further Notes on 

 Australian Ilydroids, with description of some New Species," by 

 W. M. Bale, F.R.M.S. "Note on the Hatching of a Peripatus 

 Egg," by Arthur Dendy, D.Sc. "A New Thermo-Electric 

 Phenomenon," by W. Huey Steele, M.A. 



May 11. — "Notes on the Saibai, Kaurarega and Gudang 

 Languages, with remarks on Unsound Philological Methods," by 

 Rev. Lorimer Fison, M.A. 



June 8.-^" Glaciation of the Western Highlands, Tasmania," 

 by E. J. Dunn, (communicated by A. W. Howitt, F.G.S.) 

 "Further Note on the Glacial Deposits of Bacchus Marsh," by 

 C. G. VV". Otiicer, B.Sc, and L. J. Balfour. 



