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atmospheric electricity. On the 13th of October Mr. Sydney W. 

 Gibbons read a paper on "A contaminated Water Supply;" and your 

 President described an instrument called Eckhold's Omnimeter. A 

 paper by Mr. W. Etheridge, jun. (Edin.), on a new species of 

 Retepora, found in the tertiary deposits at Schnapper Point, was 

 presented and read by the President. On the 10th of November 

 Mr. E. J. White read some remarks on a method of finding Green- 

 wich time and the longitude, suggested by Mr. E. K. Home, of 

 Adelaide. On the 18th November Mr. A. K. Smith read a paper 

 on the New Embankment near Princes Bridge, on the south bank 

 of the Yarra, which he considered likely to occasion much damage 

 in flood time. The same subject was revived at a meeting on the 

 8th of December, when also Dr. Neild read a paper on " The 

 Advantages of P>urning the Dead." 



Your Council has accepted a tender for the thorough repair of the 

 fencing around the Hall, with new gates, and has under considera- 

 tion the propriety of cementing the exterior of the building at no 

 very distant date. 



The Society has been honoured in the course of the year by the 

 consent of his Excellency Sir G. F. Bowen to become the patron of 

 the Society, and by his presence at the annual conversazione. 



Seven new members have joined the ranks of the Society during 

 the year. 



Measures have been taken to distribute, with as little delay as 

 possible, the new volume of the Transactions to all those learned 

 societies with whom your Society exchanges publications, and to all 

 the members of the Society. 



