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questions asked and answered respecting the Davy Fund, they 

 were received and adopted on the motion of Mr. Marks and 

 Mr. A. H. Jackson, as follows : — 



Annual Keport. 



Your Council has the honour to report that the following 

 papers were read during the session of 1886 : — 



On the 11th March, Dr. M'Gillivray's "Description of New or 

 Little-known Polyzoa," Part X., and Rev. D. Macdonald's '' The 

 Oceanic Languages Semitic." 



On the 8th April, Mr. F. A. Campbell's " On the Stability of 

 Structures in regard to Wind Pressure." 



On the 13th May, Mr. Griffiths' "Notes on Kerguelen's Land." 



On the 10th June, Mr. Wakelin's "On the Possibility of the 

 Force Producing Gravitation not Acting Directly on every 

 Particle of a Planet," and Mr. F. A. Campbell's "On the Stability 

 of Structures in Relation to Wind Pressure, No. 2. — Rridges." 



On the 8th July, Dr. M'Gillivray's "Description of New or 

 Little-known Polyzoa," Part XL, and Dr. Verbeek's " Report on 

 the Eruption of Krakatoa." 



On the 12th August, Professor Kernot's paper "On Lightning 

 Conductors," and Mr. W. M. Bale's " On the Genera of the 

 Plumulariidse, with Observations on various Australian Hydroids." 



On the 9th September, Mr. Griffiths' " On the Official Reports 

 of the Tarawera Eruption.'' 



On the Uth October, Mr. A. W, Hewitt's "On the Area of 

 Intrusive Rocks at Dargo," and Mr. A. H. S. Lucas' "On the 

 Sections displayed in the Coode Canal," and "On the Sound 

 Organs of the Green Cicada." 



On the 11th November, Dr. M'Gillivray's " Descriptions of New 

 or Little-known Polyzoa " Part XIL, and " Catalogue of the 

 Marine Polyzoa of Victoria," and Mr. John Dennant's " Notes on 

 Post Tertiary Strata in South-western Victoria." 



On the 9th December, Professor Krause's "On the Tripolite 

 Deposits at Lilicur," and Mr. F. A. Campbell's " On the Want of 

 a Uniform System of Experimenting upon Timber." 



During the year five gentlemen were elected as ordinary 

 members of the Society, namely, the Hon. F. D. Derham, and 

 Arthur Lynch and A. C. Wannon, Esqs., on the 13th May; and 

 Wm. Lucas and Gerard Wight, Esqs., on the 12th August. Three 

 as country members, namely, John Dennant, Esq., on the 8th 

 April; D. M. Davies, Esq., M.L.A., on the 10th June; and 

 W. D. T. Powell, Esq., on the 9th September. Six as Associates, 

 namely, R. W. Chapman, James F. Cole, and Sydney Horsley, Esqs., 

 on the 13th May ; and T. E. Jackson, Richard Matthews, Esqs 

 Dr. J. J. Wild, on the 10th June; 



