ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



FOR THE YEAE 1899. 



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The Council of the Royal Society herewith presents to the 

 Members of the Society the Annual Report and Balance Sheet 

 for the Year 1899. 



The following Meetings were held, and Papers read during the 

 Session : — 



March 9. — 1. "Further Descriptions of the Tertiary Polyzoa 

 of Victoria, Part II.," by C. M. Maplestone. 2. " Sea Tempera- 

 tures as an aid to Weather Forecasting," by T. W. Fowler, M.C.E. 



3. "The Spectra of Oxygen, Sulphur and Selenium and their 

 Atomic Weights," by L. Rummel. 



April 13. — 1. "A New Rotifer, Lacinularia striolata, with a 

 note on L. pedunculata," by J. Shephard. 2. "The Tertiary 

 Deposits of the Aire and Cape Otway," by T. S. Hall, M.A., 

 and G. B. Pritchard. 



May 11. — 1. "Notes on Maku'us gouldi and M. cyaneus, with 

 special reference to their change in Plumage," by R. Hall. 2. 

 " Note on an Abnormality in the Circulatory System of Hyla 

 aurea," by Professor Baldwin Spencer. 



June 8. — 1. " On the Occurrence of Trachyte in Victoria," by 

 E. G. Hogg. 2. " On some New Species of Victorian MoUusca," 

 by G. B. Pritchard and J. H. Gatliff. 3- "On the Occurrence of 

 Diprotodon australis, Owen, near Melbourne," by G. B. Pritchard. 



4. "On some Remains of Marsupials from Lake Colongulac, 

 Victoria," by C. W. De Vis, M.A., with Introductory Remarks 

 on the Locality, by T. S. Hall, M.A. 5. "The Bone Clay and 

 Associated Basalts at the Great Buninyong Estate Mine," by 

 T. S. Hart, M.A. 6. " Remarks on a Fossil Implement, and 

 Bones of an Extinct Kangaroo," by C. W. De Vis, M.A. 



July 7 — 1. " On the Age of the Auriferous Quartz Reefs and 

 Alluvial Deposits in Victoria," by W. H. Ferguson. 2. " Note 

 on a Basalt Tree Cast," by R. H. W^alcott, F.G.S. 3. " Exhibi- 



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