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years, up to the time of his appointment as Linnean Macleay 

 Fellow, Invertebrate Zoologist on the staff of the Australian 

 Museum. M r. Kallmann comes to the Society highly recommended 

 by his instructors, senior colleagues at different times, and others; 

 and may confidently be trusted to justify the high expectations 

 which the Council has been led to take of his qualifications. He has 

 selected Zoology as his branch of study; and will devote his atten- 

 tion particularly to further elucidation of the characters of the 

 Monaxonellid Sponges, as preliminary to the consideration of the 

 question of a more satisfactory natural system of classification of 

 the Monaxonida. Mr. Kallmann has been engaged for some 

 time upon a voluminous report on the Monaxonellida dredged 

 during the cruise of the Federal Trawler, " Endeavour," off the 

 coasts of Australia, prepared for the Trustees of the Australian 

 Museum, and now in course of publication. 



Mr. A. B. Walkom, graduated in 1910, and comes to us with 

 an excellent University record, having gained High Distinction 

 in Geology each year; First Class Honours and Medal in Geology 

 and Mineralogy, and Second Class Honours in Chemistry at 

 graduation. He has also held the position of Junior Demon- 

 strator in Geology, under Professor David for two years. Mr. 

 Walkom has selected Geology as his branch of study; and, as a 

 Linnean Fellow, will now give his attention to a detailed 

 study of the stratigraphical relations of the Permo-Carboniferous 

 areas of Australia and Tasmania, with special reference to the 

 palaeogeography of that period. He has contributed a paper 

 entitled " Report on the Pyroxene-Granulites collected by the 

 British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-09," to the Scientific Memoirs 

 of the Expedition, now in course of publication; and has coUabo. 

 rated with Mr. W. R. Browne, B.Sc, in the preparation of a 

 paper on " The Geology of the Eruptive and associated Rocks of 

 Pokolbin, N.S.W.," which has been communicated to the Royal 

 Society of New South Wales. Mr. Walkom comes to his new 

 duties with the highest recommendations from the teaching staff 

 of the Geological Department of the Univei'sity, and well equipped 

 for the work which he is about to undertake. I have very much 

 pleasure in offering to him, and to Mr. Kallmann, the very hearty 



