ABSTRACT OF PROCEEEINGS. 
VII. 
Abstract of Proceedings, 29th March, 1943. 
The Annual Meeting of the Society was held in the Geology 
Department of the University on Monday, 29th March, 1943, under the 
distinguished patronage of His Excellency Sir Leslie Wilson. The 
Chair was occupied by the President (Prof. D. H. K. Lee), who welcomed 
His Excellency on behalf of the Society. Twenty-six members and 
friends were present. The minutes of the previous annual meeting were 
read and confirmed. The President thanked those members who assisted 
in moving that portion of the Society’s Library from the basement, 
where it had been housed for safe keeping a year ago, back to the 
Society’s Room. The Annual Report, was read and adopted. The 
Balance-sheet was received. 
The following officers and Council were elected for 1943 : — 
President, Prof. J. Bostoek; Vice-Presidents, Prof. D. H. K. Lee and 
Mr. F. A. Perkins; Hon. Treasurer, Mr. E. W. Bick; Hon. Secretary, 
Miss M. I. R. Scott; Hon. Librarian, Mr. I. R. Bick; Hon. Editors, 
Mr. S. T. Blake and Dr. M. F. Hickey; Members of the Council, 
Dr. W. H. Bryan, Mr. H. J. G. Hines, Mr. E. M. Shepherd, Prof. 
T. G. H. Jones, and Mr. Colin Clark ; Hon. Auditor, Mr. L. P. Herdsman. 
The Presidential Address, “ Terra Australis Rediviva,” was 
delivered by Prof. D. H. K. Lee. His Excellency moved a vote of 
thanks, and the motion was supported by Dr. W. H. Bryan and carried 
by acclamation. 
Abstract of Proceedings, 28th April, 1943. 
The Ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Society was held in the 
Department of Geology of the University on Wednesday, 28th April, 
with Mr. F. A. Perkins (Vice-President) in the chair. About sixty 
members and friends were present. The minutes of the previous 
meeting were read and confirmed. Mr. D. A. T. Gasking and Dr. 
Jarvis Nye were elected to Ordinary Membership, and Dr. D. P. 
Hannaford Schafer, Mr. Thomas M. B. Elliott, and Mr. C. L. Daniels 
were proposed for membership. 
Dr. W. H. Bryan exhibited a set of Benioff seismographic 
instruments recently acquired by the Commonwealth Government, 
which, originally intended for the Vulcanological Observatory at 
Rabaul, are to be used in the Seismological Station of the University 
of Queensland. The instruments consist of three seismographs (to 
record North-south, East-west, and Vertical components respectively) 
and a Benioff Recorder, on which the three components are recorded 
simultaneously on three drums carrying 35 m.m. cinematograph films. 
The seismograms are so finely recorded that microscopic examination 
is necessary, and for this purpose a travelling binocular microscope 
is included in the equipment. 
Miss M. Scott demonstrated an apparatus for collecting alveolar 
air in the rabbit. The principle of the apparatus was explained and 
a demonstration of its working given. 
