PRESIDENTS ADDRESS. 3 



Other events that have come home to us by the experience of a shortage of 

 bread, or a shortage of sugar, and the interruption of communications with tlie 

 distant vStates or New Zealand, or in some other way, are the numerous Strikes 

 which have interfered with what we are accustomed to call our normal, every-day 

 social and business-life and activities. Fortunately the meeting oi the Austral- 

 asian Association for the Advancement of Science was due next year, and not 

 this, or it must have lapsed. 



We have also had the disturbing experiences of a Federal Election and a 

 State Election, both carried out with a great deal of friction, and personal as 

 well as party-bitterness and recrimination. 



June 13th, ensuing, will be the centenary of the birth of the Society's bene- 

 factor. Sir William Macleay. The Council is arranging for a Special Meeting, 

 to be held on June 14th, the actual day of the anniversary being Sunday this 

 year. Further particulars will be furnished to Members in the Abstract of Pro- 

 ceedings after the Meeting to be held on 26th May. 



Since the last Annual Meeting, more of our Soldier-Members, or Members 

 •who volunteered for war-work abroad, have returned to Australia; and we have 

 had the pleasure of personally welcoming some of them at one or other of our 

 Meeting's. We are now able to compile a complete list of those who have served 

 the Nation or the Commonwealth abroad, in some capacity or other as follows : — 



Active Service. 



Aurousseau, M., M.C. Ferguson, E. W. Laseron, C. F. 



Badham. C. *Fry, D. B. North, D. S. 



Bickford, E. I. Goldfinch, G. M. Oliver, W. R. B. 



Bretnall, R. W. Hamblin, C. O. "Stephens, H. 



Broom, Prof. R. Harrison. L. M. Stokes, E. S. 



Carne, W. M. Henry, M. 



David, Prof. T. W. E., D.S.O. Kenny, F. H. 

 * Killed in action . 



MuxiTiON" Work, etc. 

 Griffiths, E. Mawson, Sir D. Tilley, C. E. ' 



A special Honour Roll is in contemplation, of such a character that coloured 

 copies of it can be prepared for insertion in the Parts of the Proceedings, so 

 that every Member may have one, especially those Members who live at a distance. 

 It is proposed that the original shall be displayed in a conspicuous place in the 

 Hall; and that it shall be formally unveiled in a becoming manner, as part of 

 the programme of the Special Meeting for the celebration of the William Macleay 

 Centenary, on June 14th. It is to be a permanent, memorial record of the names 

 of those Members of the Society, who represent, to the rest of us, the great aggre- 

 gate of comrades who successfully strove to save the rest of the world from Might 

 as against Right. The Council thinks that Members would like to have a direct, 

 personal interest in this appropriate memorial; and it accordingly invites us to 

 contribute, according to our means, a share of the cost of providing it, as a tribute 

 to the great aggregate which our Soldier-Members represent, as well as to them 

 collectively. I commend the proposal to your favourable consideration. 



The concluding Part of Volume xliv., of the Society's Proceedings was is- 

 sued on the 15th instant. The complete volume (912 and sxsii. pp., 47 Plates, 

 and 212 Text-figures) contains thirty-four papers, ten of which were contributed 



