Abstract of Proceedings for June, 1905

At the monthly meeting of the Royal Society on Tuesday evening. His Excellency Sir Gerald Strickland, president of the society, occupied the chair, supported by members of the council, and there was a fairly good attendance, especially considering the wet and wintry state of the weather.
The Secretary (Mr. Alex. Morton) read a paper prepared by Mr. J. K. McGlymont, M.A., entitled "Notes on certain birds met with by Crozet, one of the very early navigators." Mr. St. Michael M. Podmore, M.A., F.R.G.S., etc., a visitor from England, read a paper on hybridisation in relation to animals and the definition of species, narrating the result of his own experiments and investigations.
Major F. T. Hayter, R.A.A., D.A.A.G., gave an exceedingly interesting and instructive addrees on army signalling, with the aid of diagrams explanatory of various methods of army organisation and a fine lot of army apparatus belonging to the Defence Department, and of the very latest make and efficiency.
A signalling party belonging to Capt.
A. C. Parker's Engineer Corps gave a demonstration in the working of a terminal signalling station in the field.