president's address. 



On Januaiy 25th, 1875, this Society was inaugurated l)y 125 

 Members, and in 1890 only 24 of these foundation Members 

 continued their association.* To-day but three of these pioneers 

 remain to us— Sir Normand MacLaurin, Mr. li. H. B. Bradley, 

 and Mr. George Masters — though seventeen others who have not 

 maintained their membership are still happily alive. These 

 survivors are Sir Philip Sydney Jones, Sir J. R. Fairfax, Pro- 

 fessor Liversidge, Drs. Cox, Ramsay, and E. Chisholm, The Hon. 

 H. H. Kater, Messrs. T. Brown, J. Brazier, A. Dodds, J. J. R. 

 Gibson, H. A. Gilliat, W. H. Hargraves, C. W. Lloyd, F. Lark, 

 H. Makinson, and G. Osborne. 



During last Session eight elections added to us six effective 

 Members, one Member resigned, and we mourn the decease of 

 another. This year death had almost passed us by, but turned 

 to snatch one of our younger brethren. Thomas Cahill Dwyer 

 entered the Training College in 1902, and won the Departmental 

 scholarship to the University, where he took his degree of 

 Bachelor of Science in December, 1905. Next year he was 

 appointed to the position of Resident Science Master in charge 

 of tiie Bathurst Technical College, a post he filled with credit 

 until failing health compelled liis I'etirement. After a long 

 illness he expired on August 23rd, 1909, at the early age of 30. 

 His removal from Sydney to Bathurst deprived him of the 

 opportunity of attending meetings, and so he was personally 

 known to but few of us. Those who enjoyed the privilege of his 

 acquaintance saw in him the promise, broken by his failing 

 lipalth, of scientific achievement. 



After the above had gone to press, I heard with regret of the 

 unexpected death of our ex-Member, Mr. G. W. Kirkaldy, of 

 Honolulu, on Feb. 2nd of this year. He contributed to our Vol. 

 xxxiii., a valuable "Catalogue of the Hemiptera of Fiji." In a 

 previous article, Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Exper. Station, Ent. 

 Bull, iii., 1907, Introduction, he offered a sketch of the Austra- 

 lasian zoogeographical divisions from an Hemiptera standpoint. 



* These Proceedings, xiv., p. 1300. 



