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sciousness,' by Dr. Robert MacDougall; 

 ' Morality in Child Life,' by Dr. Albert 

 Schinz ; ' Professor Titchener's View of the 

 Self,' by Professor Williain Caldwell ; ' Aris- 

 totle's Doctrine of 4''J'/.'n ^s Biological Prin- 

 ciple,' by Professor William A. Hammond ; 

 ' Epistemology and Theories in Physical 

 Science — A Fatal Parallelism,' by Professor 

 A. H. Lloyd ; ' Romanes and Mill,' by Pro- 

 fessor J. Gr. Hibben ; ' Contributions of 

 Psychology to Morality and Religion,' by 

 Professor J. G. Hume. 



Informal communications were also made 

 ■by several members of the Association. 



At the regular business meeting Profes- 

 sor Hugo Miinsterberg, of Harvard Univer- 

 sity, was elected President of the Associa- 

 tion for 1898 ; Dr. Livingston Farrand, of 

 Columbia University, Secretary and Treas- 

 urer, and Professors J. E. Creighton, A. 

 Kirschmann and E. B. Delabarre to fill va- 

 cancies in the Council. 



It was also decided to hold a summer 

 meeting in 1898 at Boston at the time of 

 meeting of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science and that the 

 next annual meeting should be at Columbia 

 University, New York, that place having 

 been chosen by the afiQliated societies upon 

 invitation from the University. 



Livingston Farrand. 



Columbia Univeesity. 



ITHE AUSTRALASIAN ASSOCIATION FOB THE 

 ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. 



The seventh session of the Australasian 

 Association for the Advancement of Science 

 was held at Sydney from January 6th to 

 January 14th, under the presidency of Pro- 

 fessor A. Liversidge. There was a large 

 attendance and full program, no less than 

 269 papers being presented before the ten 

 sections. 



The President, in his address, after refer- 

 ring to the losses the Association had suf- 

 fered in the deaths of Sir Robert G. C. 



Hamilton, Baron von Miiller and Professor 

 Parker, gave an account of the work of the 

 Association since its first meeting in August, 

 1888, under the presidency of Mr. H. C, 

 Russell, when 850 members were present. 

 Since then meetings have been held in 

 Melbourne, Christchurch (JS. Z.), Ho- 

 bart, Adelaide and Brisbane. In re- 

 ferring to the last session at Brisbane, 

 in 1895, he called attention to the re- 

 search committees then appointed. Chief 

 among these were (1) the committee re- 

 appointed for the investigation of glacial 

 deposits; (2) the seismological committee; 



(3) a committee to consider and report upon 

 the thermodynamics of the voltaic cell ; 



(4) the geology, land flora, land fauna and 

 natural resources generally of the islands 

 and islets of the Gi-eat Barrier Reef; (5) 

 the habits of the teredo and the best means 

 of preserving timber or structures subject 

 to the action of tidal waters; (6) the com- 

 mittee to give effect to the suggestions con- 

 tained in Sir Samuel Grifl&th's paper, en- 

 titled 'A Plea for the Study of the Uncon- 

 scious Vital Processes in the Life of a 

 Community.' The Association had pub- 

 lished six volumes of reports, each of about 

 1,000 pages. Professor Liversidge then 

 proceeded to give an account of the history, 

 teaching and recent advances of chemistry. 



The addresses of the Vice-Presidents be- 

 fore the sections were as follows: Astronomy, 

 Mathematics and Physics, 'Astronomy and 

 Terrestrial Physics,' by Mr. P. Baracchi, 

 Government Astronomer of Victoria; Chem- 

 istry, ' The Constitution of the Matter in. 

 the Universe,' by Mr. William M. Hamlet; 

 Geology and Mineralogy, ' Early Life on the 

 Earth,' by Professor F. W. Hatton, F. R. S.; 

 Biology, ' The Relations of Morphology and 

 Physiology,' by Professor C. J. Martin ; 

 Geography, ' Submarine Geography,' by Sir 

 James Hector, F. R. S.; Ethnology and An- 

 thropology, ' Origin of the Aborigines of Tas- 

 mania and Australia,' by Mr. A. W. Howitt; 



