X 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 
in Derby for about six months. Dr. Morrison left us in January, 
and Mr. A. Gibb Maitland was subsequently elected vice-president 
in his place. 
Eleven General Meetings, besides the Annual Meeting, were 
held, and at these the following papers were read : — Two Me- 
thods of Weighing the Cornets, in the Assay of Gold Bullion, by 
which the Balance Readings give the Finenesses Directly, r.e., 
the Weights of Cornets Corrected for Surcharge ; with Incidental 
Improvements in the Assay," by Mr. A. 0 . Watkins ; “ Colour 
Photography," by Dr. C. G. Thorp : “ Modern Investigations of 
Problems connected with Sea Fisheries," by Mr. W. B. Alexander ; 
two papers on Rock Shelters and Aboriginal Markings, by Mr. 
W. D. Campbell, read by Mr. Maitland ; “ The Insensitivity of 
Various Life Forms of the Potato Moth to Certain Poisons,” by 
Dr. F. Stoward ; and “ The Cretaceous Fossils of the Gin-Gin 
Chalk and their Geological Relationships,” by Mr. A. Gibb 
Maitland. At the September meeting Mr. Basil Cooke gave a 
demonstration of his wireless telegraphy apparatus at the Ob- 
servatory, and in December Mr. H. B. Curlewis described in 
outline the work which the newly formed Astronomical Society 
proposed to undertake. 
During the past twelve months excursions were made to 
Darlington and Boya, to King's Park (twice), to Kelmscott, to 
the Applecross wireless station by motor launch, and to a point 
beyond Guildford by the same means, and to Gooseberry Hill 
Volume IV of the Society’s “ Journal ” was published in 
February of this year at a cost of £56 ns. nd. 
Presentations to the Society include a score of scientific books 
and a number of volumes of the " Journal of the Department of 
Agriculture of Western Austarlia,” by Dr. C. G. Thorp, and an 
old edition of Cuvier's " Comparative Anatomy," in six volumes 
by Dr. Frank Tratman Forty-one societies and institutions are 
now upon the exchange list. 
At the instance of the Western Australian Institution of 
Engineers, this Society has arranged to confer with other scientific 
and technical societies of Perth on a proposal to approach the 
Government with a request for a grant of land on which to erect 
a building for their joint accommodation. 
By a resolution of the General Meeting of 13th May the 
Council was requested to take the necessary steps to obtain the 
assent of the Sovereign to the assumption by the Society of the 
title of " The Royal Society of Western Australia." To this end, 
a memorial, accompanied by a bound volume of the last three 
numbers of the Society's " Journal," has been forwarded through 
