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instructions, carefully considered the proposal to cany out a gravity 

 survey of Australasia by means of pendulum observations, and had 

 decided to recommend that the Society should proceed with the observa- 

 tions. The Committee had ascertained that the Royal Society of 

 London would lend for the purposes of the Society the pendulum 

 apparatus employed for a. similar purpose at the great trigonometrical 

 survey of India, provided that the Royal Society of Victoria undertook 

 to defray the expenses connected with the packing and despatch of the 

 apparatus. The Committee looked upon the generous offer of the Royal 

 Society of London as a matter of extreme importance, as its acceptance 

 would not only render the construction of fresh apparatus unnecessary, 

 but would make the observations taken in Australasia directly com-, 

 parable with those made by the Indian survey, also at Greenwich and 

 Kew, bases of the various European gravity surveys. The Committee 

 had further ascertained that Mr. H. W. Russell, Government astro- 

 nomer for New South Wales, Mr. C. Todd, Government astronomer for 

 South Australia, and Mr. W. H. Bragg, Professor of Physics at the 

 Adelaide University, would be willing to co-operate in the work and 

 serve 011 the committee appointed to carry it out, and the Committee 

 was of opinion that the assistance rendered by these gentlemen would 

 be of great value. Material assistance had also been promised by Sir 

 John Forrest, Premier of Western Australia. The Committee therefore 

 respectfully asked for re-appointment, with the addition of Messrs. 

 Russell and Todd, and Professor Bragg, with power to arrange for the 

 carrying out of the survey at as many stations as might be found 

 practicable, and further, that a grant of £25 be placed at the disposal 

 of the Committee for the defrayal of current expenses, including the 

 cost of the package and transport of the pendulum apparatus. 



On the motion of Professor Baldwin Spencer the report wes 

 adopted. 



Papers. — (1) " On the anatomy of Ceratella fusca, Gray," by 

 Professor Baldwin Spencer. 



(2) " Additional observations on the Victorian Land-Planarians," 

 by Dr. Arthur Dendy. 



(3) "On a new species of fresh-water fish, from Lake Mgothoruk, 

 Mount Wellington, Victoria," by A. H. S. Lucas. 



(4) " On Land-Planarians from Lord Howe Island, Part I., Des- 

 cription of New Species," by Professor Baldwin Spencer. 



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