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complete the important and promising work, whicli he has so well 

 begun. 



Mr. R. J. Tillyard, Linnean Macleay Fellow in Zoology, has 

 completed liis first year's work. Four papers have been sub- 

 mitted, two of which, on the rectal gills in the larvae of Ani- 

 sopterid Dragonflies, and the first of a series devoted to the study 

 of Australian Neuroptera, were read during the year; and will 

 be found in Parts ii., and iii., of the Proceedings for the year. 

 The second and third of the series will be communicated at the 

 first and third Meetings of the new Session. 



For the third time, in October, 1915, the Council was able to 

 offer four Fellowships, the full number. Five applications were 

 received; and I have now the pleasure of making the first public 

 announcement of the Council's reappointment of Dr. J. M. Petrie, 

 Mr. E. F. Kallmann, and Mr. R. J. Tillyard to Linnean Macleay 

 Fellowships in Biochemistry and Zoology; and of the appoint- 

 ment of Mr. H. 8. Halcro Wardlaw, B.Sc, to a Linnean Macleay 

 Fellowship in Physiology, for one year from 1st proximo; and, 

 on behalf of the Society, of wishing for them favourable oppor- 

 tunities for carrying out their important work, with a very satis- 

 factoiy measure of success. 



In joining the Society's research-staff, Mr. Wardlaw does so 

 with an excellent record, both as a student and as a Research 

 Scholar of the University of Sydney. On graduating, in 1913, 

 he obtained First Class Honours in Chemistry and Physiology, 

 and was awarded the University Medal for Physiology. In the 

 same year, he was appointed to a Science Research Scholarship, 

 which he has held for two years, during which period a series of 

 investigations were completed, the results of which are embodied 

 in five papers, of which f(jur have been communicated to the 

 Royal Society of New South Wales; and one, on "The Temper- 

 ature of Echidna," is to be found in our Proceedings for last 

 year. A sixth paper is ready, and will be published in London. 

 Mr. Wardlaw, as a Linnean Macleay Fellow, will continue and 

 extend his work on the physiology of the secretion of milk and 

 on problems which arise in connection therewith. As this is the 



