XV111. ABSTRACT OP PROCEEDINGS. 



The certificates of six candidates were read for the 

 third time, of four for the second time, and of one for the 

 first time. 



The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary 

 members of the Society : — 



Board Peter, m.a. Syd. ; Under Secretary and 



Director of Education, Department of Public 



Instruction, Sydney. 

 Foy, Mark ; Merchant, " Eumemering," Bellevue 



Hill, Rose Bay. 

 Hooper, George ; Registrar, Sydney Technical Col- 

 lege, p.r.'Branksome,' Henson-street, Summer Hill. 

 Jensen, Harold Ingemann; Macleay Fellow of the 



Linnean Society of N.S. Wales, 31 Arcadia Road, 



Glebe Point. 

 Moors, Elphinstone MacM., m.a. Melb., f.i.a., Lond. ; 



'Kallista,' Raglan Street, Mosman. 

 Turner, John William ; Assistant Under Secretary, 



Department of Public Instruction ; Department of 



Public Instruction, Sydney. 



Mr. W. A. Dixon, by permission of the President, made 

 the following remarks : — He had often found that young 

 men were quite willing to work out any investigation, but 

 that they were not aware of any subject which would 

 repay them ; he, therefore, desired to suggest one in which 

 he had found no information. He thought it deserved 

 investigation, but had no time himself to attempt it. He 

 had in his dining-room a Fletcher's gas fire, an upright 

 fire-clay block, with tufts of asbestos heated to radiation of 

 heat point by a Bunsen flame. Some years ago, sitting in 

 front of this it occurred to him that it would be an improve- 

 ment to convert the colorless flame to a colored one, and 

 therefore twisted some wires into a rope and saturated 

 this with brine to obtain a sodium flame. Next night the 



