"The Great Lake and it's Water Power. A 

 further paper, dealing with the "Aboriginals 

 of Tasmania." by Mr. J. B. Walker, closed the 

 session of 1897. During the year the 

 evening meetings have been well attended and 

 great interest taken. As will be seen by the re- 

 port appendix A, the medical section have had 

 several meetings, presided over by the presi- 

 dent of the section, R. S. Bright, M.R.C.S.E. 

 Several important subjects have been dealt 

 with by the members of the medical pro- 

 fession. 



COUNCIL. 



Owing to the death of Mr. James Barnard, the 

 vacancy on the Council was filled by the ap- 

 pointment of Mr. R.S. Bright, M.R.C.S.E. 



LIBRARY. 



The trustees of the British Museum pre- 

 sented a valuable collection of works. A full list 

 is published in the proceedings, pp. XXII. and 

 XXIII.; also a list of donations from kindred 

 societies on pages XXV.-XXIX. 



FELLOWS. 



Four corresponding members and niueFellows 

 were elected during the year. 



The income has been : Subscriptions, £93, with 

 1896 balance, £89 13s.; total, £182 13^. Expendi- 

 ture. £U6 16s. 2d., leaving a balance of £3o 

 163. lOd. 



APPENDIX A. 



Towards the end of 1893 the medical members 

 of the Royal Society established a medical 

 section. Seventeen members joined the sec- 

 tion. The following officers were elected in 

 December, 1896, to hold office till March, 

 1898:-Patron: Sir James Agnew, K.C.M.G.; 

 president, R. S. Bright; vice-presidents, G. H. 

 Butler, E. L. Crowther ; hon. treasurer, A. H. 

 Clarke ; hon. secretary, Gregory Sprott ; mem- 

 bers of committee : W. A. Harvey, J. E. 

 Wolfhagen. Seven general meetings were 

 held, and all were well attended, nearly every 

 member contributing to the work of the section 

 by papers or discussions. Papers— 1. "A Plea 

 for Circumcision," by Dr. A. H. Clarke. 2. 

 "Notes of a Post Mortem," Dr. W. W. Giblin. 

 3. " Serum Diagnosis of Typhoid Fever, with 

 Microscopic slides," Dr^. Gregory Sprott and E. 

 J. S. Spark, i. " Friedreich Disease," by Dr.E. 

 J. S. Spark. 5. '• New Method of Treating 

 Empyema," by Dr. S. C. Jamieson. 6. " Notes 

 of a Case of Camphor Poisoning," by Dr. A. H. 

 Clarke. 7. " Case of Suppuration of Eyeball 

 during Convalescence from Typhoid," by Dr. S. 

 C. Jamieson. Exhibits : -A large calculus by 

 Dr. Bright. Tasmanian skulls, by Dr. A. H 

 Clarke. Horseshoe Kidney, Dr.Gregory Sprott. 

 Ihe following exhibited cases of interest :— Dr. 

 Sr A-.,9rosby Walch, Dr. E. J. S. Snark, Dr. W, 

 W, Gibhn 



The report was adopted. 



The following members were "re-elected 

 members of the Council :~Sir James Agn^w 

 K.C.M.G, M.D., M.E.C.; Hon. N. J.' 

 Brown, M.E.C., Speaker of the House of 

 Assembly; Colonel W. V. Legge, R.A., 

 Commandant of Tasmanian Forces ; R M 

 Johnston, F.L.S., F.S.S., Registrar-General 

 of Tasmania. 



PAPERS. 



" Notes on a visit to some op the English 



MUSEUMS." By His Lordship the 



Bishop of Tasmania, 



Bishop Montgomery read a paper giving 



an account of his experiences in British 



Museum?. An interesting description was 



given of the many exhibits seen in the 



museums visited. The paper stated that 



the well kept order of the Tasmanian 



Museum was referred to wherever he went. 



The advantage of exchanging exhibits was 



also referred to. 



"Notes on the geology of la pekouse.' 

 By Mr. H. W. Nicholls, 

 Mr. R. M, Johnston, F.L.S., read a piper 

 on the geology of Mount La Perouse, which 

 was written by Mr. H, W. Nicholls. The 

 paper referred to the difficulties encountered 

 in making an ascent of the mountain. The 

 top of the mountain is composed of yellow 

 clay slates. The deposit appeared 

 to be about 100ft, in thickness, 

 and rested on grey sandstone. Beneath 

 the sandstone was a body of basalt. 

 One of the hills to the north of Perouae 

 also teemed to have a covering of grey slates. 

 It appeared to the writer that the com- 

 piratively small elevation of the mountain 

 accounted for the existence of the sedi- 

 mentary deposits at the present time. The 

 age of the deposits could only be hazarded. 

 Anyone ascending La Perouse was advised 

 to keep careful compass bearings when a fog 

 prevailed. 



"Notes on humeri of a tasmanian laby- 

 rinthodont." By W. H. Twelve- 

 trees, FG.S., and W. F. Petterd, 

 M.Z.S, 

 The Secretary {Mr. Morton) read the 

 following paper, prepared by Messrs. W. H. 

 Twelvetrees, F.G S., and W. F. Petterd, 

 C M.Z.S. The paper stated that last year 

 the writers received from Dr. H. Wood- 

 ward, keeper of the geological collections in 

 the British Museum (South Kensington), 

 the replica of a cast in the British Museum 

 collection, which had been obtained from Dr. 

 Joseph Milligan, formerly of Hobart. Soon 

 after informing Mr. Morton, Curator of the 

 Tasmanian Museum, of the circumstance that 

 gentleman brought under their notice and 

 placed in their hands for examination a 

 fossil bone (in two pieces) found in the sand- 

 stone quarry near Government House, in 

 the Hobart Domain, and presented to the 

 Museum in 1856 by Mr, Hay, Director of 

 Public Works. Both the British and Tas- 

 manian specimens are left humeri, and 

 unquestionably belong to the same genus, if 

 not the same species. 



