LVI. 



as are represented, for example, in the first order seismological 

 station in the St. Ignatius' College Observatory at Riverview." 



Physical and Chemical Data. — " That a committee, con- 

 sisting of Professor Masson, Professor Warren, Professor Laby, and 

 Dr. Love as secretary, be appointed to co-operate with the inter- 

 national commission for the collection and annual publication of 

 all determinations of physical, chemical, crystallographic, and 

 engineering constants, and that a sum of £25 be granted towards 

 the work of the committee." 



Meridian Observatory. — " That the Association respect- 

 fully draws the attention of the Government to the following 

 resolution which was passed at the International Astrographic 

 Conference held in Paris in 1909. This resolution the Association 

 most strongly supports." Resolution referred to : — " Considering 

 the very small number of observatories in the Southern Hemisphere 

 organised for work of high fundamental precision, it is very desirable 

 in the interests of science that a meridian instrument of the most 

 modern type should be installed in Australia." 



Teaching of Elementary Geometry.—" That pursuant to 

 the provisions of the resolution carried in Brisbane 1909, with 

 regard to the teaching of elementary geometry, a committee, 

 consisting of Professor Carslaw, Mr. Lucas, Mr. R. H. Roe, with 

 Mr. P. Board as secretary, with power to add to their number, be 

 appointed to carry out the instruction contained in the last half of 

 the Brisbane resolution." 



Yass-Canberra Observatory. — " That the Association ex- 

 presses its gratification of the action taken by the Commonwealth 

 Government in regard to the creation of an observatory at Yass- 

 Canberra, and would recommend that, in order to comply with the 

 request of the International Union for Solar Research, brought 

 before the Council at the Brisbane meeting in January, 1909, such 

 observatory be designed to iill, amongst other requirements, those 

 of a solar observatory." 



SECTION B. 



"That a general discussion on 'The Eucalypts and their 

 Products ' be brought forward at the Melbourne meeting." 



SECTION C. 



" That a committee be appointed to enquire into the question 

 of the classification of the Permo-Carboniferous of Australia, with 

 a view to the revision of the nomenclature, such committee to 

 consist of Mr. W. H. Twelvetrees, E. F. Pittman, F. Chapman. A. 



