ASERONOMICAL SECTION 
OF THE 
Moval Society of South Australia. 
SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. 
In presenting their annual report the Committee are pleased 
to record that the objects for which the Society was formed are 
been carried on satisfactorily. 
The Section has 39 members on its roll, having gained five new 
members and lost five by death and removal since last annual 
meeting. 
The attendance at ordinary meetings has not been so large as 
the Committee would have liked and expected, the average num- 
ber present being 15, 7.e., less than one-half, after allowing for 
the six members resident in the country. 
One of the ordinary meetings was given up to a conversazione 
at the Observatory, when, by the courtesy of our President and 
his staff, a pleasant and profitable evening was spent, including a 
view of celestial objects by the aid of the equatorial telescope. 
The papers read and discussed during the season 1893-4 
were :—‘‘ Captain Weir’s Azimuth Chart,” by the inventor ; 
“ Ether: The Reasons for Believing in its Existence and its 
Properties,” by Mr. C. C. Farr, B.Sc. ; ‘The Habitability of the 
Planets,” by Mr. W. Holden; “ Meteors,” by Mr. W. Russell ; 
_ © Astronomical Photography,” by Mr. E. P. Sells; besides 
which, the passing astronomical phenomena have been expatiated 
upon by our’ President, the Government Astronomer 
(Sir-C. Todd), and much valuable information afforded to lay 
members. 
The Astronomical Notes begun in July, 1892, have been con- 
tinued monthly and distributed to every member, and are, the 
Committee hopes, found to be increasingly interesting. 
The Committee would again ask all members to seek to interest 
others in the objects of the Section as set forth in Rule 2. 
Adopted at meeting held Tuesday, 11th September, 1894. 
Wm. Houpen, Vice-President. 
W. E. CuHeesman, Sec. and Treas. 
11th September, 1894. 
