s FOB THK AIVAN KM KMT OF SCIENCE. 



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ing and Architecture. James Pin 



J. ilrntal Srieii.1. and Ritual.,,, 



Otneral Treasur 



rrin.-,. J.,hnxh, r :,. .fid 0, \S I > \ iv 



Oprlllnir Srtiloll. H hOMl BfJeSSSM -f 



the Brisbane matting began on Jan. 19 * 

 arrangement* for work during the station 



..- : :,-,li'..: afl.-r I hi pSJSJfla] tOWfl < S> 



vtned, and owing to the absence of 



. 



: . 



A. c. 



Vioe-Pwrident Romell occupied the chair. 

 businew before the council tnoluded the coo 

 firming of the arrangvmenU of the 1< 

 mid mtifying the selection of 



/\Aft. K _l...l..l *L^ 



local 



officer*. Other 



atting t., I-,- hald it. Sydney. Minof oOotn 

 oal ecretaric were also choaan. The 

 opinion that, owing to the small number of mam- 

 ben and the larg extent of territory, vearlr 

 meatingi ware too frequent was preeinted t and 

 it was proposed that they be held onoe in two 



ence ami K*iumtion. was referrrtl to a commit i.-,- 

 of that MM>tt.>ti f.>r report, as was also the pro- 

 ,H^I ahririoa ofSioSoa (J, Boooomk BessWi 



an.i \cn.-u .-. 



I's AdditMt. Owing to the ab- 

 Mnoe of Ralph Tat,-, the rvtiriiiR prwudent, 

 1 tassel I. Qorernroent Astronomer 

 Wales, prwide.1 at tl.,- m.-, 

 g of Jan. 13. held in Centennial Hall, 

 deploring the absence of Mr. T 

 said : " No one bat dona more for the advance- 

 of science in AuMralia than Mr. Gregory. 

 *ork is intimately known by evaty oolo- 



M liTing i- 



of tl. ntsphere,- He then mtn>- 



Gregory, who proceeded at onoe to 

 deliT, igural address Geo- 



graphical History of the Australian Continent 

 during its Succeerire Phases of Geological Dt- 



He said: ** The earliest indiotliont 

 of land within the limits of the 



oCIJ 



" 7 of graniteTwhich it asrtatoU t 



These wart found in Tasmania and 

 Western Australia. From the granite he 

 passed to the stdimenUry deposits, in which 

 wart the Laurent ian. Cambrian, and Silurian 

 rocks. These were principally drrtlof^i in 

 Queensland to the north ami it 

 south. Than came the Devonian and the fir* 

 ' -.-. ' V ' :, . . 



came up from the sea. The principal elevation 

 was on the taattrn coast, where the rise matt 

 hare been several tbouav 

 watt it was lest pronounced, though the arm 

 1 included nearly the whole of 

 what i* now Western Australia. The aunfer- 

 ous deposits in lodes are found in the disrupted 

 strata of this period. As to the sources from 

 which the gold was 



speculations, but t ha- *t accordr 



thr actual conditions -is that the metal ej 

 in vary minute quantities to the mats of 



has been If 



ferred through the agency of electric can 

 ami thr * 

 which ditto! it i 

 i.. ii. mrlaU, and w.. u M 

 aUion at the places 

 .., 



I 







of the Qoaanaknd fold minea wa illiniiii. 



t ! .-..'.,-.-: . - 



of Harare lodea. Pawing upward, ha amid thai 



upward, he amid 

 from the middle to the cloaa of the ^ 



Which the 



oontpicuous type. The 



h..w a cxmtTnetit somewhat similar 

 M to that of the present Australia. At 



aU.ut the en. 1 ' t'alsj . - 



of the Mesosoic period there was a further elera- 

 tion. especiallv in the eastern part. The regt- 

 tation t>iat followed this perio/was veil atssfl*. 



CM! for the formation of 

 Cretaceont began, a 

 place and the coal 



I 





of 



wa^graduaTantf of long duration. On UM 

 coast the At*tftn rote from 100 to MO feat 

 its present Itral in Qntiniaaii. Tat central 

 an.l wrutern parts of the continent were almost 

 rntirelysubmeriTd. At the close of the! 



Australia wa reduced to the area of a 

 land on the east coast and some tma 



continent. Early in the Trmai? a new ek 



land began, but the rite was not 



tended by any great disturbance of the rtraU. 



and the present outline of the continent was as- 



dtiy Australia. Tbr 



as they now are came into existence chiefly 



which the climate gradually 



the drift, afler 

 drier and 



