XXVI. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS 



Bladen, f.r.g.s., f.r.h.s. (Loud.), Principal Librarian, 

 Public Library, Sydney. 



3. The Council intended to hold a Conversazione this 

 Session, but it has been found necessary to postpone it 

 until next year. 



4. The Chief Commissioner for Railways (Mr. T. R. 

 Johnson) has kindly invited the members of the Royal 

 Society to visit the Power House any afternoon to be 

 arranged, from 4*30 to 5*30. Names of intending visitors 

 should be notified to the Honorary Secretaries. 



5. The Institute of Architects of New South Wales has 

 kindly invited the members to attend a meeting to be held 

 in this Hall to-morrow night at 8 o'clock, when a paper 

 will be read by Mr. P. Walker on " The Vice-Regal Resi- 

 dences in New South Wales," illustrated by lantern slides. 



THE FOLLOWING PAPERS WERE READ: 



1. "The One-wheeled Oar," by Lawrence Hargrave. 



2. "The Steady Deilection Method of Current Measure- 



ment with an Electrometer," by J. A. Pollock, 

 Professor of Physics in the University of Sydney. 



EXHIBITS : 



Mr. J. H. Maiden exhibited and described a number of 

 interesting botanical specimens illustrating stem-fasciation 

 in various genera of plants, and drew attention to the 

 experiments of Miss A. A. Knox of New York, who has 

 shown that stem-fasciation is caused, in specimens examined 

 by her, by attacks of insects on the growing tips of the 

 plants. 



He called the attention of members to the fact that no 

 notice was necessary in regard to exhibits, and that if 

 members would at the General Monthly Meetings be kind 

 enough to bring along any object they might think of 

 interest, the Council would be extremely obliged. 



