ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



For the Year 1921. 



The Council herewith presents to Members of the Society 

 the Annual Report and Statement of Receipts and Expenditure 

 for the past year. 



The following meetings were held : — 



March lo — Annual Meeting. 



The following office-bearers retired by effluxion of time : 

 President, Professor Ewart, D.Sc. ; Vice-Presidents, F. Wise- 

 would, Professor Laby; Hon. Treasurer, W. A. Hartnell; Hon. 



Librarian, ; Hon. Secretary, J. A. Kershaw; Members 



of Council, Professor Osborne, Dr. Summers, Dr. Baldwin^ 

 Messrs. Dunn, Richardson, Picken. 



The following were elected: President, Professor Ewart,. 

 D.Sc. ; Vice-Presidents, F. Wisewould, Professor Laby ; Hon. 

 Treasurer, W. A. Hartnell; Hon. Librarian, A. S. Kenyon; 

 Hon. Secretary, J. A. Kershaw; Members of Council, Professor 

 Osborne, Dr. Summers, Dr. Baldwin, Messrs. Dunn, Richard- 

 son, Picken. 



The Annual Report of the Council and Financial Statement 

 were read and adopted. 



At the close of the annual meeting an ordinary meeting was 

 held. The following paper was read: (i) ''Blood and Shade 

 Divisions of Australian Tribes," by Sir Baldwin Spencer, 

 K.C.M.G., F.R.S., D.Sc. Exhibit: Extracts from Mach's 

 "Science of Mechanics,'^ as bearing upon the Theory of Rela- 

 tivity, by Mr. D. K. Picken. Dr. J. M. Lewis was elected a 

 member. 



April 14th: — Paper: "The Age of the Ironstone Beds of 

 the Mornington Peninsula," by Frederick Chapman, A.L.S. 

 Professor W. E. Agar delivered a lecture on "Physical Basis of 

 Heredity." 



Mr. Studley Miller and Captain Edward Kidson, O.B.E., M.Sc, 

 were elected members; Captain R. E. Trebilcock, M.C., a coun- 



