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they also serve who only stand and wait, that their subscrip- 

 tions will be a welcome aid to the cause we all have at heart. 

 Where authors are able and willing to defray a part of the 

 cost of illustrating or printing their papers, such assistance 

 would be gratefully accepted by the Council. 



Our last volume, No. xxxv., of the Proceedings was 

 issued in four parts, and has been distributed to members. It 

 contained the thirty-one papers which were read at the 

 monthly meetings. 



By a combination of circumstances several Linnean Macleay 

 Fellowships have been vacated lately. Dr. Goddard had 

 hardly commenced his year's work when he received an ap- 

 pointment as Professor of Zoology and Geology at Victoria 

 College, South Africa. He left Australia with our hearty 

 congratulations and good wishes for his future career. 



For the new year the Council had re-appointed Dr. Petrie 

 and Mr. Cotton, and had appointed Mr. T. T. Flynn, B.Sc, 

 Lecturer in Biology to the Tasmanian University, to a Fel- 

 lowship in comparative anatomy and embryology. Recently 

 Mr. Flynn withdrew from the Fellowship to accept a Profes- 

 sorship offered to him by the Senate of the Tasmanian. 

 University. 



A few v/eeks ago Mr. Cotton resigned his Fellowship also, 

 to join the teaching staff of the Geological Department, ixnder 

 Professor David. Mr. Cotton has, in our service, proved him- 

 self an enthusiastic and capable investigator, and we antici- 

 pate for him an honourable and useful career under his 

 Alma Mater. It is pleasant to find that so many advantageous 

 positions are within the reach of those qualified to hold our 

 Fellowships. 



In the Bacteriological Laboratory of the Society, Dr. 

 Greig-Smith has investigated the bacterial flora of the stools 

 of children afflicted with rickets. From the preponderance 

 of the streptococci over the rod-shaped bacteria as compared 

 with normal stools, he came to the conclusion that an increase 

 in tlie streptococci is associated with the disease. 



