Abstract of Proceedings for July, 1906

The monthly meeting of the Royal Society was held on July 11, His Excellency the Governor (who was accompanied by Lady Edeline Strickland and Mr. Geo Browne, Private Secretary) in the chair.
Dr. Elkington, Chief Health Officer, gave a most interesting and important address on "School Hygiene", illustrated with diagrams, the lantern-slides showing the different ways in which children sit at school, getting into bad habits, spoiling their eyesight, curving their spines, and doing themselves all sorts of injuries, which were owing to bad ventilation, badly constructed schoolrooms, badly placed windows, and wrongly constructed desks. A discussion followed the paper, in the course of which Mr. Smith, headmaster, of the Model School at Battery Point, spoke of the splendid work done by Dr. Elkington in improving the conditions of the schools in Tasmania.
A paper entitled "Notes on King Island and Recent Discoveries" was read by Messrs. R.M Johnston, I.S.O., and Alex Morton.
A paper on the "Geology of King Island" was read by Mr. R.M. Johnston and illustrations of the scenery were depicted by means of Lantern Slides.