president's address. 1301 



At the present moment the Society numbers one hundred and 

 seventy-one members, five having withdrawn, by resignation or 

 otherwise, and three new members having been elected since the 

 last annual meeting. 



But the Society has suffered a very severe loss in the death of 

 one of its most distinguished members, eminent for his attain- 

 ments, admirable for his union of patience and energy, and 

 everywhere beloved for the unaffected simplicity, courtesy, and 

 kindness which so remarkably characterised his intercourse with 

 others. The Eev. Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods, who 

 deceased in Sydney on Monday, the seventh of last October, 

 became first attached to this Society upon his election by the 

 Council to the status of a Corresponding Member, in June, 

 1876. He subsequently became, November, 1878, an ordinary 

 member, and was elected President at the next annual meeting. 

 After holding this ofiice for the customary period of two years, 

 he was elected Vice-President at the commencement of 1883, in 

 which ofiice he continued until the time of his death. 



In the list of contributors to the First Series of our Pro- 

 ceedings (published by the Society, 1887), no less than seventy 

 entries testify to the exuberant industry, no less than to the 

 extraordinary variety of attainments, which characterised our 

 lamented friend. They relate to so many different branches of 

 Natural History that it would be impossible to classify them 

 within the limits which the nature of my present duty prescribes. 



I therefore simply enumerate them in the order of their 

 appearance, as follows : — 



P.L.S.N.S.W., 1st Series, Vol. I. : Observations on the genus 

 Risella. Vol. II. : On some Australian sp. of Trochocochlea ; 

 On a new sp. of Necera ; On a variety of Trigonia Lamarckii ; 

 On a Tertiary Formation at New Guinea ; The Echini of Aus- 

 tralia, including those of the "Chevert" Expedition, (pp. 31); On 

 some Australian Shells described by Dr. A. Gould ; Description 

 of some new Marine Shells (Port Jackson Heads); On some 



