Report of Meetings of the Society. 
Meeting held on the 14th July. — Hon. A. Weber, 
President in the chair. 
There were 14 member present. 
Elections. — Members : Revds. f . W. Halliday and 
R. A. Powell and Mr. H. T. Moore. 
Associates ; Messrs. J. L. De Souza, A. D. 
Ferguson, Jose Viera, R. C. Roach, J. N. Shaffer, 
and James Cameron. 
In answer to a question of Mr. Jacob Conrad the Presi- 
dent said that he had not yet brought forward his 
motion for an Agricultural School as it involved a grant 
from the Government which he was afraid could not be 
procured at present. He would however bring it for- 
ward at the next meeting. 
Mr. W. Price Abell read a paper on the " Automatic 
Megass Firemen" (see page 350.) 
Mr. R. G. Duncan spoke of the results of some experi- 
ments of the Colonial Company in economising fuel by 
improvements in furnaces. Since 1890 these had been 
carried on with the result that now ij to if pounds of 
water were evaporated by a pound of green megass, 
whereas formerly only about three quarters of a pound 
was evaporated by the same quantity. The form of 
furnace now adopted by the Company was the same that 
Mr. Abell had figured and he had listened to the paper 
with considerable interest. 
A vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Abell. 
The President informed the meeting that the Directors 
proposed to have a Conversazione in the Reading 
