256 PEOCEEDINQS. 



Section E — Microscopy. — Cliairman : A. Roberts, M.E.C.S. 



Committee : Dr. Milford, Dr. Belgrave, W. MacDonuell, 



Hugh Pater son. Secretary: G-. D. Hirst. 

 Section F — Geography, &c. — Chairman : E. Du Faur, 



F.E.O.S. Committee: Hon. L. De Salis, M.L.C., J. 



Manning, C. L. Sahl, A. S. Webster. Secretary : W. 



Forde. 

 Section G — Literature and Fine Arts. — Chairman : E. L. 



Montefiore. Committee : Hon. L. De Salis, M.L.C., E. 



DuFaur, F.E.G.S., W. G. Murray, C. A. Morell. 



Secretary : H. x\. Lenehan. 

 Section H — Medical Science. — Chairman : A. Eoberts, 



M.E.C.S. Committee : Dr. Milford, Dr. Morgan, Dr. 



Cox, H. G. Wright, M.E.C.S. Secretary: Dr. Sydney 



Jones. 

 Section I — Sanitary and Social Science had not yet met to 



elect officers. 



Twelve donations were laid upon the table by the Chairman. 



The Eev. De. Laxg then read his paper — " On the Origin and 

 Migration of the Polynesian Nation, and their original discovery, 

 possession, and settlement of America ; with a critical examina- 

 tion of Mr. Bancroft's work upon the Native Eaces of the Pacific 

 States of North America." 



Mr. H. C. ErssELL, the Government Astronomer, exhibited a 

 clock with an appliance for correcting the time every hour, by 

 means of an electro-magnet connected with a regulator. This 

 method had been invented by Mr. Eussell for the purpose of 

 regulating the clock at the Eailway Terminus, Eedfern, by the 

 standard clock at the Observatory. 



THURSDAY, 20 JULY, 1876. 



Extra Meeting of the Eoyal Society of New South Wales, 

 held in the Society's Eooms, Elizabeth-street. 



The Eevd. ^V. B. ClAeke, Y.P., in the Chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary Members 

 of the Society, viz. : — 



Arthur Todd Holroyd, M.D., M.B. (Cantab), F.L.S.,F.E.G.S., 



Sherw^ood Scrubs, Parramatta. 

 Tne Hon. Wm. Graham, M.L.C., Union Club, Sydney. 

 Alfred Cadell, Vegetable Creek, New England. 

 J. T. Toohey, Melrose Cottage, Cleveland-street. 



