446 TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION E. 
Sir John Fuller, the State Governor, unveiled a tablet affixed to the granite tor 
at the summit of Station Peak, near Geelong, on which Flinders stood to survey 
the bay on May 1, 1802. At Western Port there is a cairn and tablet which 
were unveiled by his Excellency the following Discovery Day. It commemorates 
the discovery of that inlet by Bass in 1798, and the first passage of the Strait 
by him and Flinders later in the year. Lastly, led by the members of the 
Victoria Branch of the Royal Geographical Society, an effort that will soon be 
- consummated was sect on foot some time ago to erect a worthy statue of Flinders 
in Melbourne. 
Thomas Mitchell, who was appointed Surveyor-General of New South Wales 
in 1827, had seen service with Wellington throughout the Peninsular War, and 
had been ailowed by him to employ his talent for military sketching and plan- 
making. To this fine training was added a love for his work as a surveyor and 
explorer, together with much energy. He well deserved the knighthood that 
was bestowed upon him. Before his death at Sydney, in 1855, he had recorded 
a vast amount of detail in connection with the physical features of Eastern 
Australia. 
Of his four great expeditions—the first to the north of New South Wales, 
the second to the Darling near Bourke and then down that river, the third 
through Western and Central Victoria (his Australia Felix), and the fourth into 
Central Queensland—the third proved of inestimable service to the young 
colony by attracting settlers to it. This fact is now being recognised by 
Victorians. With the Discovery Day celebrations has been associated the 
unveiling of a tablet to his memory at Pyramid Hill, where he stood on 
June 30, 1836, and surveyed the charming prospect around him: of a second on 
Mount Arapiles, which he ascended on July 23; and a third at Expedition 
Pass, through which he journeyed on September 29. Owing to the enthusiasm 
teachers are showing in the matter, it is certain that, in the near future, his 
line of march in Victoria will be well indicated by tablets. 
TUESDAY, AUGUST 18. 
Joint Discussion with Section C on the Physiography of Arid Lands. 
See p. 363. 
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19. 
The following Papers were read :— 
1. Australian Exploration. By the Right Hon. Sir Jonn Forrest, 
G.C.M.G. 
2. Forest Climate and Rainfall. By Ti. A. Mackay. 
8. Recent advances in the Map of the World on the Scale of 
1:1,000,000. By Professor A. PENcK. 
The proposal for an international map of the world on a uniform scale has 
been considerably advanced in the last few years. A conference of delegates 
of several States held in London in 1910 approved the general scheme adopted 
by various Geographical Congresses since 1892—namely, the scale of the map 
to be 1: 1,000,000, each sheet to be plotted on its own surface and to be limited 
by parallels at a distance of 4 degrees in latitude and by meridians at a distance 
of 6 degrees in longitude, the meridians to be reckoned from Greenwich, the 
map to be a hypsometrical map, the contour lines of which should be given in 
hundreds of metres. The resolutions of the London conference were carried 
