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Elder Chair of Natural Science in the University of Adelaide; 

 and thereafter actively laboured to advance a knowledge of the 

 flora, fauna and geology, primarily of South Australia, but as 

 leading up to the consideration of questions of an Australian or 

 Australasian character. In addition to an extensive series of 

 papers comprised in the twenty-five published volumes of the 

 Transactions of the Ko3^al Society of South Australia, Professor 

 Tate also contributed others, at some time or other, to almost 

 every scientific Society in Australia. Special mention may be 

 made of his Presidential Address to the Biological Section of the 

 Australian Association for the Advancement of Science, at the 

 first Sydney Meeting of 1888, in which he proposed a threefold 

 division of the endemic Australian Flora according to subregions. 

 Also of his Presidential Address to the Association at the 

 Adelaide Meeting of 1893, in which he treated of a Century's 

 Geological Progress in Australia. Professor Tate was a member 

 of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia in 1894; 

 ^nd an important contributor to the botanical, conchological and 

 o-eological sections of the published results of that great under- 

 taking. He was also the author of a "Handbook of the Flora 

 of Extratropical South Australia," published in 1890. In a word, 

 Professor Tate was a most worthy South Australian representative 

 of the biological and geological veterans of the older States, 

 whose numbers during the last decade or two have, in the 

 ordinary course of nature, so sadly diminished. 



In the early part of the year Mr. Cecil W. Darley, Mem. Inst. 

 C.E., found it necessary to retire from the Council in consequence 

 of his removal from Sydney to London. Apart from personal 

 and professional qualifications Mr. Parley's wide experience and 

 extensive knowledge in matters Australian, made him a very 

 valuable member, and his resignation was recei\ed with much 

 regret. Mr. James P. Hill, B.Sc, F.L.S., Sydney University, 

 was elected to fill the vacancy. 



In September last, to the regret of the Council, Mr. P. N. 

 Trebeck found it necessary to resign the Hon. Treasurership, in 

 consequence of his retirement from active business life. The 



