TRANSACTIONS, PROCEEDINGS, AND REPORT 



OF THE 



Foe 1878-9. 



ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 

 Oedinaey Meeting, Noyembee 5, 1878. 



Professor Tate, F.Gr.S., President, in the chair. 



Dr. Sawteli and Mr. II. T. Sparks elected ordinary 

 members. 



The Hox. Seceetaey laid npon the tahle — " Statistical 

 Register of Victoria for 1877," " Meteorological Observations 

 at Adelaide Observatory, 1877," also for April, 1878. 



Mr. Thos. D. Smeaton showed two dissimilar pictures, one 

 being a photographic copy of the other. The original was 

 printed in blue and yellow colours, the blue being very 

 distinct and the yellow scarcely visible. In the photographic 

 copy the yellow came out quite strongly, whilst the blue was 

 nearly absent. The pictures illustrated a new system of bank- 

 note printing, whereby forgery by means of photography can 

 be rendered impossible in the present state of that art. 



Mr. Chas. Todd mentioned an error made by the President 

 in his inaugural address at last meeting, with respect to the 

 .space proposed to be devoted to Museum purposes in the 

 projected western wing of the new Institute buildings. 



Dr. S. J. Magaeey read a paper, illustrated by outline map 

 of South Australia, and by diagrams showing thermometrical 

 ranges, degrees of humidity, and death-rates per 1,000 of 

 children under one year of age, in the colonies of Tasmania, 

 JSew Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and 

 South Australia, entitled "Our Climate, and Infant Mortality." 

 (See page 1.) 



Discussion ensued. 



Mr. Q. H. Hamilton asked if it could not be fairly assumed 

 that the excess of infant mortality in large centres of popula- 

 tion, such as Port Adelaide and towns on Yorke's Peninsula, 



