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of the drawings which are the originals of plates published in 

 various works. Six of them are represented in the Illustrationes. 

 This paper gives the most complete account of Bauer's artistic 

 work, ever published. As the drawings are thirteen thousand 

 miles away, Australian botanists will be glad of, and thankful 

 for the information which Mr. Britten has supplied.* 



We have to deplore the mysterious disappearance of the Federal 

 Trawling Steamer " Endeavour," with all on board, including 

 Mr, H. C. Dannevig, Commonwealth Director of Fisheries, and 

 a biological colleague, while engaged in fishery-work on a cruise 

 to the south, towards the end of the year. The Commonwealth 

 Government sent out two steamers, which have returned after 

 an extended but vain search for tidings of the missing vessel; 

 and the authorities have now given up all hope. We profoundly 

 regret the loss of those on board, and deeply sympathise with 

 the bereaved. We have received from the Commonwealth 

 Fisheries Branch, during the year, the concluding Part of Vol. 

 i., and Vol, ii, of the "Biological Results of the Fishing Experi- 

 ments carried on by the F,I.S, Endeavour, 1909-10, under H. C. 

 Dannevig"; and also Parts 1-2 of Vol. iii, of Biological Results, 

 1909-14. It is a grievous loss to Science that the continuation 

 of these important contributions to knowledge must shortly come 

 to an end because of the loss, under most distressful circum- 

 stances, of the only Australian officers and the only Australian 

 vessel engaged in deep-sea fishery work, 



I have pleasure in noting that the " David Syme Research 

 Prize" for 1915 has been awarded by the University of Melbourne 

 to one of our Members, Mr. E, C, Andrews, of the Geological 

 Survey staff; and of congratulating him on his success. 



The aw;ird of the Wollaston Medal for 1915, by the Geological 

 Society of London, to Professor David, is a matter of genuine 

 gratification to Members of this Society, as this is the lirst time 



* The paper on "Ferdinand Bauer and some of his Drawings," by Dr. 

 WooUs, in the " Rural Australian," May, 1889, to which Mr, Fred Turner 

 called attention, at the Meeting of the Society, in July, 1914, has not been 

 accessible. Possibly it will be found to refer only to the "Illustrationes," 

 and other published drawings, 



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