PROCEEDINGS. 381 
The certificates of two candidates were read for the third time, 
of six for the second time, and of three for the first time. 
The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary members 
of the Society :— 
Halloran, Henry Ferdinand ; Sydney. 
White, Harold Pogson ; Kogarah. 
Twenty-one volumes, one hundred and twenty-two parts, and 
five pamphlets received as donations since the last meeting, were 
laid upon the table and acknowledged. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. “Flying Machine Work and the 4 I H.P. Steam Motor, 
weighing 34 Ibs.,” by LAwRENcE HArGRAVE. 
Remarks were made by Prof. Threlfall and the Chairman. 
2. On the venom of the Australian Black snake (Pseudechis 
porphyriacus), by C. J. Martin M.B.,BSec., Demonstrator 
of Physiologyin the University of Sydney, and J. McGarvig 
SMITH. 
Remarks were made by Mr. W. M. Hamlet, Prof. Ander- 
son Stuart, and Prof. Liversidge. 
Mr. W. M. Hamuer exhibited and described a new form of 
Blowpipe apparatus. 
Mr. H. C. Russett exhibited a photograph of Winnecke’s 
Comet, obtained the day previously after three hours exposure. 
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER. 7, 1892. 
Prof. WARREN, M. Inst. C.E., President, in the Chair. 
Twenty-six members and four visitors were present. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 
The certificates of six candidates were read for the third time, 
of three for the second time, and of three for the first time. 
The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary members 
of the Society:— 
Bell, Walter Farmer, M. Inst. c.E.1.; Sydney. 
