ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. XXXV. 



ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER 2, 1898. 



The General Monthly Meeting of the Society was held at the 

 Society's House, No. 5 Elizabeth-street North, on Wednesday 

 evening, November 2nd, 1898. 



The President, G. H. Knibbs, f.r.a.s., in the Chair. 



Twenty-six members and one visitor were present. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 



The certificate of one candidate was read for the third time, 

 of one for the second time, and of one for the first time. 



The following gentleman was duly elected an ordinary member 

 of the Society : — 



Thow, Sydney, Engineer; 24 Bond-street. 



The members are informed that the library of the New South 

 Wales Branch of the British Medical Association (121 Bathurst- 

 street) is available for their use, the Association and this Society 

 having entered into a reciprocal arrangement. This arrangement 

 does not extend to the lending out of books. 



THE FOLLOWING PAPERS WERE READ : 



1. " Soaring Machines," by Mr. Lawrence Hargrave. 



The paper describes some recent experiments with soaring 

 machines and gives as a reason for rejecting the form previously 

 made, that its nature was such that however long or heavy the 

 ends of the rod were, they could only retard for a longer or shorter 

 period of time the tipping up or down of the machine. The 

 weight is now hung underneath the propeller, like the car of a 

 balloon or parachute, the angle of incidence being regulated by 

 gravity alone. Some previous experimenters with soaring machines 

 were mentioned who have, as a rule, been greatly discredited. 

 A diagram showed the condition of the air in the neighbourhood 

 of a soaring curve with the names of the various parts. 



2. "Native Vocabulary of Miscellaneous New South Wales 



Objects etc.," by Mr. Surveyor Larmer. (Communicated by 

 Professor T. P. Anderson Stuart, m.d., by permission of the 

 Honourable the Secretary for Lands). 



