10 HENRY DEANE. 



23. Note on mutilations practised by Australian Aborigines, by 



T. L. Bancroft, m.b. Edin. 



24. Note on the Occurrence of a Nickeliferous Opal near Tam- 



worth, by D. A. Porter. 



Sectional Meetings. — The Engineering Section held eight meet- 

 ings, at which the average attendance of members and visitors was 

 20 -5 ; the following papers were read and discussed : — 



1. Annual Address to the Engineering Section, by C. O. Burge, 



M. Inst. C.E. 



2. The Unification of the Methods of Testing Materials Used in 



Construction, and the Precautions Necessary in the Accurate 

 Determinations of the various Coefficients of Strength and 

 Elasticity, by W. H. Warren, M. Inst. C.E., M.Am. Soc.C.E., Wh.Sc. 



3. Note on the Cubic Parabola applied as a Transition to Small 



Tramway Curves, by C. J. Merfield, f.r.a.s. 



4. Low Lift Pumping Machinery, by T. H. Houghton, a.m.i.c.e., 



m.i.m.e. 



5. Belt Power Transmission with some new form of Brake 



Absorption Dynamometer, by Herbert E. Ross. 



6. Tramway Rail Joints, by G. R. Cowdery. 



7. Light-houses in New South Wales, by Henry R. Carleton, 



M. Inst. C.E. 



The Medical Section held four meetings at which the following 

 papers were read : — 



1. On fifteen cases of Intussusception, by Dr. C. P. B. Clubbe. 



2. On a Clinical and Pathological Criticism of Hereditary Ataxy 



and Locomotor Ataxy, by Dr. G. E. Rennie. 



3. A note on the application of the Tuberculin test to Bovine 



Animals, by Dr. J. Ashburton Thompson. 



4. Some recent work on the Cerebellum, its connections and 



functions, by Dr. George E. Rennie. 



5. Notes on an interesting Cerebral case, by Dr. J. Adam Dick. 



Reception. — A "Reception" was held at the Royal Society's 

 House, No. 5, Elizabeth-street North, on Wednesday, July 14th. 

 1897. Mr. Henry Deane, jm.a., m. inst. u.e., President, presided, 



