XXXVI. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



OF THE 



ADELAIDE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 



For the Year ending- September 30th, 1879. 



The Council has the satisfaction of stating that the useful 

 work of the past year is at least equal to that recorded of any 

 previous year in its history. 



The following papers were laid before the Society during the 

 year : — " Our Climate and Infant Mortality," by S. J. Magarey, 

 M.B. ; " The Philosophy of Consciousness," by Hon. B. T. 

 Einniss ; " The Aborigines of South Australia," by J. T>. Woods ; 

 " Statistics of Consumption in South Australia," by J. C. 

 Verco, M.D. ; " The Bocks and Cliffs at Ardrossan," by O. 

 Tepper; "The Physical Features and Natural History of the 

 Country around the G-reat Bight," by Prof. Ralph Tate, E.G.S.; 

 "Will : the Effect of Physical Forces acting on the Brain," by 

 Hon. B. T. Einniss ; " Census of the Insect Fauna of South 

 Australia, Parti," by O. Tepper ; " List of Australian Star- 

 fishes," by Eev. J. E. T. Woods, F.L.S., F.G.S., &c. ; " Sun- 

 stroke," by J. E. Joyce, M.D. ; " Museums in Australia and 

 New Zealand," by E. Cooke, M.P. ; " Census of the Insect 

 Eauna of South Australia, Part II," by O. Tepper; "The 

 Newer Tertiaries of Munno Para," by G-avin Scoular ; "Recent 

 and Eossil Species of Australian Salenariadse," by Rev. J. E. T. 

 Woods, E.L.S., E.G.S., &c. ; " Zoologica et Palseontologica 

 Miscellanea," by Prof. Ealph Tate. E.G.S. ; " Note on the 

 Artificial Formation of Atacamitc," by J. F. Cloud, F.C.S. 



The Council has felt that the Society was not obtaining from its 

 affiliation to the South Australian Institute all the advantages 

 which had been intended by the Legislature to attend such a 

 connection, and has represented to the Government that 

 although the Institute Act provides that the affiliated Societies 

 may share in the moneys provided for Institute purposes by 

 the annual vote of Parliament, the estimates were worded in 

 such a maimer that they were precluded from the enjoyment 

 of this privilege. The Government has acknowledged the 

 justice of the representation, and the wording of the estimates, 

 as passed this session, places the affiliated Societies on the 



