694 NARRATIVE AND ITINERARY 
Sir Winthrop Hackett, K.C.M.G., first Chancellor of the University 
and senior member of the Legislative Council, was similarly honoured 
in absentid, and a number of other degrees were also conferred. Dr. 
A. C. Haddon addressed the Meeting on behalf of the Association. 
Field-work in Western Australia.—The principal object of the visit 
to Western Australia, however, was to carry out work in the field, 
mainly in the directions of botany, geology, zoology, and agricultural 
investigation. A number of official excursions had been arranged to this 
end, and among the localities and places visited by parties of the visitors 
were the Irwin country, the Darling Range (Kalamunda, Lesmurdie, 
Cannington, &c.); Mogumber, New Norcia (where Members were re- 
ceived at the Benedictine Monastery), and Gillingarra; Albany and its 
neighbourhood; Mount Barker, the Stirling Range, and Northam; 
Busselton and the Yallingup and Margaret River caves; Mundaring 
Weir; Kalgoorlie; and the Big Brook timber mills in the jarrah and 
karri forests, and Bridgetown. Informal visits were also made to points 
in the Darling Range and elsewhere in the neighbourhood of Perth. 
Of scarcely less interest to zoologists and anthropologists were the 
discussions which resulted from visits to the collections at the Museum 
(under the direction of Messrs. Woolnough and Alexander), and 
to those at the University made by Professor W. J. Dakin from 
the Abrolhos Islands (the subject of a communication to Section D at 
Sydney). Throughout the visit to Western Australia, although no 
formal sectional meetings were held, the public lectures were well 
attended, and the conferences with local men of science dealt largely 
with questions of local research, and may confidently be expected to 
result in the advancement of Science. 
The great majority of the Advance Party joined the Orient R.M.S. 
Orvieto at Fremantle, and sailed for Adelaide on August 4. 
Adelaide, August 8-12. 
Arrival at Adelaide: Railway Passes.—Apart from some individual 
Members who had arrived at earlier dates, the first party to arrive at 
Adelaide was that on board the Aberdeen s.s. Huripides, which berthed 
at the Outer Harbour on August 7—the day previous to that on which 
she was originally expected. The large party (some 140) on the R.M.S. 
Orvieto followed on the morning of August 8. Both steamers were met 
by some of the principal officers for the Meeting, and Members before 
leaving the vessels were supplied with railway passes, which, by the 
combined action and generosity of the Railway Commissioners in all the 
States, enabled the whole of the Overseas Party to travel without charge 
over Government railways throughout the Commonwealth, the passes 
Pe valid from August 4 to September 18, and including sleeping 
erths. 
Information Lists: Conveyance from Stations, &e.—In the case of 
each of the-parties landing from the steamers, compartments were 
reserved on one of the special trains running, in connection with the 
steamers, from the Outer Harbour to Adelaide. Each Member had 
