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TABLE OF CONTENTS.'^ 





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Index of Addresses, Reports, and Papers iv. 



Officers for the Second Brisbane Meeting ix. 



Publication and Recommendation Committees x. 



Reception Committee for Brisbane ... ... ... ... ... ... ... x. 



Members of Council Nominated by Societies x. 



Officers of Sections xi. 



Objects and Rules of the Association ... ... ... ... ... ... ... xxxv. 



Balance Sheets, Brisbane Session, 1909 ... ... ... ... ... ... xxx. 



General Balance Sheet, Sydney Office xxxii. 



Meetings of the General Council ... ... ... ... ... ... ... xiii. 



Meetings of the Recommendation Committee ... ... ... ... ... xxii. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Inaugural Address by the President, Professor W. H. Br.\gg, M. A., F.R.S., 



" The Lessons of Radio-activity " 1 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES IN THE SECTIONS. 



Section A. — Address liy Professor J. A. Pollock, D.Sc, on "The Ions 



of the Atmosphere" 31 



Section B.— Address by Professor Easterfield, M.A., Ph.D., F.C.S., 



on " The Position of Chemical Research in Australasia" ... ... 115 



Section C— Address by Professor E. W. Skeats, D.Sc, A.R.S.C, F.G.S., 



on " The Volcanic Rocks of Victoria" ... ... ... ... ... 173 



Section D. — Address by Chas. Hedlkt, F.L.S., Assistant Curator, Aus- 

 tralian Museum, Sydney, on "The Marine Fauna of Queensland " ... 329 



Section E.— Address by A. H. S. Lucas, M.A., B.Sc, on "The Future 



of the Pacific" ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 385 



Section F. — Address by Augustus G. Hamilton, Director, Dominion 



Museum, Wellington (not received at date of going to press) 451 



Section G (i.)— Address by G. H. Knibbs, F.S.S., F.R.A.S., on "The 



Problems of Statistics" .505 



Section G (ii.)— Address by H. W. Potts, F.C.S., F.L.S., on " The Agrarian 

 Industries : Their Development and Present Condition, with Special 

 Reference to the Outlook for the Commonwealth of Australia".., ... 569 



Section H.— Address by Professor R. W. Chapman, M.A., B.C.E., on 



" The Structure of Metals and Their Behaviour under Stress" ... ' ... 613 



Section I.— Address by J. Mason. M.D., on "The Municipal Control of the 



Milk Supply" 683 



Section J. — Address liy Peter Board, M.A., Under Secretary, Depart- 

 ment of Public Instruction, New South Wales, on " Recent Develop- 

 ments in Education" ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 703 



REPORTS OF THE RESEARCH COMMITTEES. 



Report of the Committee on Seismology 41 



Report of the Committee on Terrestrial Magnetism 50 



Report of the Committee on Structural Features and Glaciation 237 



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