Friday, 31st August, at 8 p.m., " On recent discoveries on the 

 Pineal Eye," by Professor Baldwin Spencer. 



The railway authorities of South Austraha, Victoria and New 

 South Wales agreed to issue return tickets at single fares, to 

 members of the Association travelling by railway from other 

 Colonies to attend the General Meeting, and the following steam- 

 ship companies undertook to convey members to Sydney and back 

 at a reduction of 20 per cent, on the ordinary rates : — Australian 

 United Steam Navigation Company ; Messrs. Wm. Howard Smith 

 and Sons, Limited ; Messrs. Huddart Parker and Co. ; Adelaide 

 Steamship Co. The Union Steamship Co. carried members at 



The titles of the 110 papers read and the lectures delivered 

 indicate that the work done was eminently useful and interesting; 

 and it must be a source of great satisfaction to this Society that 

 the meeting went off with unclouded success, aiforded much 

 pleasure to a large number of the best class of minds, by affording 

 them an opportunity of interchanging thought with kindred spirits 

 and generally stimulated the spirit of scientific enterprise. 



I must not fail to mention here, that the annual Conversazione 

 of this Society was arranged to take place at the termination of 

 the Association's Proceedings. It was held in the Great Hall 

 of the University, on the 5th September, under the management 

 of a Committee composed of the President, Sir Alfred Roberts, 

 H. C. Russell, B.A., F.R.S., one of the Vice-Presidents, the Hon. 

 Secretaries, Prof. Liversidge, M.A., F.R.S., and F. B. Kyngdon, 

 and Messrs. Charles Moore, F.L.S., P. R. Pedley, Dr. Leibius, 

 M.A., Prof. Threlfall, M.A., and Prof. Warren, il. Inst. C.E. 

 i^ The TIall and tlie approa(;lu'S were ai-fistical1y drconited with 

 flags, shit-l(is, and fi'stoons of uav..,uTy, .-l.;.! Mr. Charh^s :yioore, 

 Director of the Botanic (lardcii.-, kiiull\ t'lirni^hcd n ---iijiply of 

 palms, fern.-, and rare pot-})laiit.s. 



The Physical Laljoratory was thrown open, and experiments 

 were conducted by Prof. Tlirolfall and Mr. John F. Adair, also the 

 Medical School of Prof. Anderson Stuart and the Mechanical 



