278 REPORTS FROM THE SECTIONS. 
SECTION H.—MEDICAL SCIENCE. 
Dvrrve the session of 1877 there have been held eight meetings 
of the Section—one special general oe for the election of 
rp — rers, 5 ee seven general meeting 
a ail of the Committee 
for he current year. 
i. N. Mucl oLavErs, } Secretaries. 
At the meetings many papers of considerable interest were 
read by members of the Society, and most of the meetings of the 
Section were well attended. 
_ The papers read being of an exclusively professional character, 
the Committee do not recommend that any of them should be 
published in the Journal of the Royal Society. 
P. SYDNEY JONES. 
Noy. 27th, 1877. H. N. MACLAURIN. 
SECTION I—SANITARY SCIENCE. 
Report of the Social be Doosan 5 Science Section of Royal 
Society for the session of 
Sydney, 4 December, 1877. 
To the President of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 
I have the honor to submit the following report :— 
The Section held its first meeting. on the 21st ‘dag of March 
last, when the gentlemen were elected to the offices named. 
Mr. Atrrep Roserts, Chairm 
Messrs. Jackson, Bepronn, reomen and Murray, mem- 
bers of Committe 
: 1g Woop, Banetes Secretary. 
On the subject of the Vital Statistics of the eg further 
_ information was obtained from the Registrar General. 
Steps were taken to procure the Re soot Me the “Hai College 
of Physicians on the “ Improvement of Health of Towns, 1849 to 
1869,” Reporton “Cellar Dwellings an nd Common Lodging-houses,” 
Report on Mode 1 Lodging-houses. Rumeig (H. W.), “ Public 
Health, the right use of records founded on ied facts.” 
