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The Australasian Scientific Magazine. [Sept. 1, 1885. 
D. Power, Bethanga ; two snakes from Mr. E. Hicks, Drouin ; three black 
swans from Mr. J. Cleeland, Phillip Island ; one monkey from Mr. George 
Yeoman, Surrey Road, South Yarra ; one black-backed coot from Mr. 
Johns, Curzon Street, Hotham. 
Bibliographical Society of Australasia. 
A meeting was held on Friday, 14th August, convened by Mr. R. T. 
Litton, F.N.S., at his offices, Phoenix Chambers, Market Street, to take 
steps for the formation of a Bibliographical Society of Australasia. Mr. 
Litton was elected chairman. After a short address from the chairman, 
Mr. J. S. Rodgers proposed, and Mr. J. E. Wall seconded, that a Society 
should be formed, to be called the “ Bibliographical Society of Aus- 
tralasia.” After a lengthy discussion this was agreed to. The objects of 
the Society were defined by a resolution to be “The cultivation and 
advancement of the study of Bibliography, more especially as it relates 
to the Australasian colonies, and the collection of information for the 
compilation of a reliable Bibliography of Australasia.” Those present 
resolved themselves into a Provisional Committee. Mr. Litton was 
requested to accept the position of Honorary Secretary pro tern , which 
he consented to do. It was decided that the next meeting should be 
announced by advertisement in the Argus , and that intending members 
should be balloted for. 
Amateur Photographic Association. 
The monthly meeting of the Amateur Photographic Association was held 
on Tuesday, the nth August, at the Royal Society’s Hall. The President 
(Dr. Browning) was in the chair. Messrs. Levien, Barrett, Mulvany, Smith, 
Huggins, and Ardern, of Melbourne ; Mr. J. C. Leslie, of Corowa ; and 
Messrs. Williams and Keyworth, of New Zealand; were elected members. A 
letter was read from Mr. Musgrove, announcing the receipt of the necessary 
apparatus for photo-mechanical printing by means of the Stannotype process, 
and asking members to send negatives to him for reproduction. A number 
of photographs received from the Queensland Photographic Association, 
and the Philadelphia Amateur Photographic Club, were laid upon the table, 
and greatly admired. The prints included some very fine specimens of 
instantaneous work. The President gave a short description of the manipu- 
latory portion of the wet collodion process, and subsequently obtained 
by its means a transparency in the camera from a wet plate negative, and 
also a negative from a wet plate transparency, thus showing the whole 
process of producing the negative and positive. The originals were illumi- 
nated by means of the sciopticon, and the demonstration was intended 
mainly to illustrate the process to those members who, having taken up 
photography since the advent of gelatine plates, know nothing of collodion, 
except by hearsay. 
