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(combination ammeter Yollinder); Siemen's universal galvanometer; 

 Blackburn portable testing apparatus (range '005 to 2000 Ohms.);- 

 metre bridge with low resistance, reflecting galvanometer ; new 

 form of Wheatstone bridge (resistances plugged in) ; portable 

 lightning rod tester, with magnet generation ; Warner's battery 

 gauge (for single cells); Ayrton and Perry's spring ammeter (long 

 range); Ayrton and Perry's spring voltmeter (medium range) ;- 

 Miller's low reading ammeter (for single cells) ; Garden's 

 voltmeter; E. P. and Storage Co.'s ammeter (for storage battery); 

 Farquharson and Lane, electric speed meter ; Consolidated Co.'s 

 telephone transmitter ; Hunning's long distance transmitter ; 

 Etalon acoustic or mechanical telephone ; small telephone exchange, 

 office form ; Regnier's accumulator, with incandescent lamps in 

 circuit; chloride of silver battery, 100 cells (portable); watchman's 

 tell-tale, American form ; collection of glow lamps — Swan, Edison, 

 Lane, Fox, Bernstein, and Opperman ; collection of aerial and 

 underground telephone cables. 



Mr. Davidson exhibited plan of Yan Yean system and extensions,. 

 and fine photographs of principal works. 



Professor Andrew exhibited a hydraulic pump, &c. 



Mr. Fenton, Fuller's slide rule. 



Mr. Warren, a galvanometer. 



Messrs. Metzler & Co., surgical instruments. 



Professor Kernot, seventeen photographs of locomotives on the 

 principal railways of England, five of railway bridges in South 

 Australia, and two of the recent railway accident at Bridgewater,. 

 Tasmania. 



The Amateur Photographic Society, some fine photographs, and 

 from the Natural History Museum, two skins and eggs of the 

 ornithorynchus paradoxus. 



November llth, 1886. 



Present: Mr. E. J. White, Yice-President (in the chair), and 

 16 members and associates. 



In pursuance of Law XLYII. the Antarctic Exploration Com- 

 mittee was reappointed to enable it to act during the recess. 



The Yice-President notified that the Council had appointed a 

 Printing Committee, consisting of Messrs. Ellery, Griffiths, and 

 Eusden, to supervise the printing of papers and Transactions during 

 the recess. 



The Librarian reported that among 120 publications received 

 was a portfolio containing reprints of the oldest existing maps of 

 Australia, presented by the Government. 



Dr. M'GiLLivRAY presented two papers — (1) "Description of 

 New, or Little Known, Polyzoa," Part XII.; and (2) " Catalogue of 

 Marine Polyzoa of Yictoria." 



