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first time a physiologist has been appointed to a Fellowship, we 

 look forward with pleasurable expectation to a more prominent 

 place of this branch of science in the Society's Proceedings than 

 has hithei'to been possible. 



The names of one Society and two Institutions — the National 

 Academy of Sciences at Washington, the Zoological Museum at 

 Tring, England, and the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz at Rio de 

 Janeiro — have been added to the Society's Exchange-list during 

 the year. The addition of their valuable publications to the 

 library is very welcome. 



Thi-ee portraits of workers identified in some way with the 

 fauna or flora of Australia were presented during the year, and 

 are now on view — one of Professor Herdman of Liverpool Uni- 

 versity, the gift of Mr. C. Hedley; the second of the late Rev. 

 Dr. WooUs, well known to, and highly venerated by, the older 

 botanical members of the Society, for some years a contributor to 

 our Proceedings, for which the Society is indebted to the Trustees 

 of the Australian Museum; and the third, of the late Alexander 

 Walker Scott, formerly of Ash Island, author of "Australian 

 Lepidoptera," and an active member of the Entomological Society 

 of New South Wales, a donation from the Secretary. It is very 

 gratifying to have the Society's collection of portraits added to 

 in this interesting and very welcome manner. 



Dr. E. Mjoberg, of Stockholm, has been good enough to send 

 to the Society reprints of eleven papers published in the Hand- 

 hnger[Bd. lii., 191.3-15] or in the Arkiv for Zoologi[Bd. ix.,1915] 

 of the Royal Swedish Academy — a first instalment of a series 

 entitled "Results of Dr. E. Mjoberg's Swedish Scientific Expedi- 

 tions to Australia, 1910-13." Six authors have co-operated in 

 the production of these papers, which deal with the Mammals, 

 Reptiles, Batrachia, certain groups of Hymenoptera [Fam. Ste- 

 2)hanklie, Ichneumonidce, Braconido', and Formicidfe^, and some 

 Mesozoic plants. A number of species are described as new, and 

 many notes on geographical distribution and on other matters 

 are given. When completed, the series promises to be a very 

 important contribution to a knowledge of the fauna of the out- 

 lying parts of Australia in which the collecting was done. 



