XX11. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



The author also announced the presence in most 

 Eucalyptus kinos of a well defined organism which will 

 grow in aqueous solutions of these kinos. To this organism 

 may perhaps be traced the marked alteration in some kinos. 

 It is being investigated by Mr. S. J. Johnston, b.a., b.sc, of 

 the Technological Museum. 



Remarks were made by Dr. R. Greig Smith and Mr. 

 Hamlet. Mr. H. G. Smith replied. 



2. "On some Hydrographical data in relation to Ocean 

 Currents," by H. A. Lenehan, f.r.a.s. 



A paper dealing with ocean drifts principally in the 

 Southern Hemisphere. It contains a tabulated statement 

 of 182 records, the most important of which travelled a 

 distance of 11,330 miles between June 19, 1901 and March 

 5, 1904, at a daily rate of 11 J miles. There are also eleven 

 other drifts over 3,000 miles long. Two charts accompany 

 the paper, showing the positions where the records were 

 cast adrift and the places where found. 



Remarks were made by Dr. Walter Spencer, Mr. G. H. 

 Halligan, and the President. Mr. Lenehan replied. 



Mr. Hamlet, f.i.c, f.c.s., exhibited a collection of 

 metals in boiled and unboiled water placed therein for 

 many years. 



The following is an abstract of the Second Popular Science 

 Lecture of the present Session, delivered on the 28th July 

 and repeated, by special request, on the 5th August in the 

 Physics Lecture Theatre of the University, by Prof. G. H. 

 Knibbs, f.r.a.s., on "The Fabric of the Universe." The 

 lecturer, after pointing out the originating cause of mental 

 and natural philosophy, traced the history of the theory of 

 the atomic constitution of matter, from Mosphus of Phrygia, 

 before the siege of Troy down to the present time, referring 

 especially to the part played by Anaxagora, Leucippus, 



