OF THE AUSTRALIAN MEETING. 713 
climax to a meeting of unparalleled interest to the visitors, and, we 
venture to hope, of value to the country in which it has been held.- 
We are, Sir, Yours, &c., 
W. Bateson, President, 
JOHN Prrry, General Treasurer, 
a _ s Tere \ General Secretaries, 
O. J. R. Howarrtn, Assistant Secretary. 
British Association for the Advancement of Science, Sept. 3. 
Homeward Voyage.—-After the conclusion of the Brisbane session 
the party became further divided. Of nearly 100 members who did 
not immediately return south about forty waited in Brisbane for the 
Burns Philp s.s. Montoro, which sailed on September 3 for Northern 
Queensland, Java, and Singapore. Others made various individual 
arrangements. A party of 88, however, was conveyed south by a 
special train leaving Brisbane on September 1 at 8.30 a.m., and reach- 
ing Wallangarra in the evening, where members were transferred to a 
special sleeping-car train, which reached Sydney shortly after noon on 
September 2. Beyond this point no further special transport arrange- 
ments were required. Sixty-three of the Members sailed from Australia 
on the P. & O. R.M.S. Morea, which left Sydney on September 5, 
Melbourne on September 8, and Adelaide on September 10, but these 
members made individual arrangements as to joining the ship, and 
some did so at each of the three ports named. 
Visit to Tasmania.—A party of twenty-one Members, under the 
leadership of Professor T. Thomson Flynn, visited Tasmania, leaving 
Melbourne by the s.s. Loongana on September 5, and arriving at 
Launceston on September 6. At Launceston the Museum and the 
Cataract Gorge were visited, and on September 7 the party proceeded 
to Hobart by rail. On September 8 receptions were held at the Town 
Hall, the Museum, and the University, and an official luncheon at 
Government House was given by His Excellency the Governor of 
Tasmania, Sir W. Ellison-Macartney, and Lady Ellison-Macartney. 
In the evening Dr. G. T. Moody lectured on ‘ Some Commercial Aspects 
of Education.’ On September 9 Mount Wellington was visited, and 
on September 10 several other excursions took place in the neighbour- 
hood of Hobart. On September 11 the party proceeded to Maria Island 
on the east coast, where geological, zoological, and botanical collections 
were made and dredging was carried out in the neighbouring sea. On 
September 13 the kitchen middens at Little Swan Port were explored, 
and the party returned to Hobart, the principal part of the programme 
having been completed. The zoologists, however, remained, and 
Professor Dendy gave an address to the Royal Society of Tasmania on 
‘ Progressive Evolution.” Dr. W. M. Tattersall gave a public lecture 
on *‘ The Depths of the Sea.’ On September 16 the zoological party 
proceeded to the Great Lake and carried out collecting in the lake and 
its neighbourhood, returning to Hobart on September 22. 
