XIV. PRESIDENT S ADDRESS. 



the appointment of Mr. E. J. Tillyard, M.A., B.Sc, to a Linnean 

 Macleay Fellowship in Zoology, for one year from 1st proximo; 

 and, on the Society's behalf, of congratulating them on their 

 appointment, and of wishing for them a prosperous and successful 

 year. 



Of the qualifications of Mr. Tillyard, as the new member of 

 the Society's research-staff, I can speak in the highest terms. 

 He took his B.A. degree at Cambridge, in 1903, with honours 

 in Mathematics, and his M.A. in 1907. From 1904-13 he was 

 Assistant Mathematical Master at the Sydney Grammar School. 

 In 1903, Mr. Tillyard was admitted as a Research Student in 

 the University of Sydney; and, at the same time, he was awarded 

 one of the Government Research Scholarships, which he has held 

 for two years. He completed the course of General Zoology, 

 passing with high distinction; and gained his B.Sc, by research, 

 the title of his thesis being "On some Problems concerning the 

 Development of the Wing-venation of Odonata," which has been 

 published in last year's Proceedings. Mr. Tillyard is well known 

 to us, and I need only add that thirty-three of his papers have 

 been published in the Society's Proceedings; one has appeared in 

 the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute for 1912; and 

 that three others are in course of publication elsewhere. He has 

 also completed the manuscript of a book on the Odonata, shortly 

 to be published at Cambridge. 



Since the Society owes the establishment of Fellowships to Sir 

 William Macleay's liberality, and his interest in Science began 

 primarily in entomology, though it soon broadened wonderfully, 

 it is eminently fitting that, in the fulness of time, an entomologist 

 should be appointed. Mr. Tillyard, though an entomologist, is 

 not merely a cabinet-drawer specialist. He is interested in a 

 small and manageable group, which had been neglected locally, 

 and, with which, the specialist abroad, with incomplete material, 

 had not had too much to do. There was no representative series 

 of specimens in any museum; and he had to start by making his 

 own collection, which now contains the majority of the types. 

 He has enlarged his knowledge of the group by collecting in 

 every one of the States, except the Northern Territory. But Mr. 



