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and distributed, as far as circumstances will permit. It amounts 

 to 924 pages, and is illustrated with fifty text- figures, and ninety- 

 four plates —the maximum number for any volume of the entire 

 series. We begin the Session again with a sufficient number of 

 papers in hand to provide for several Meetings. 



The Council is again indebted to Mr. C Hedley, F.L.S., for 

 his generosity in providing the blocks for the illustration of his 

 papers —in this case seventeen blocks illustrating three papers 

 in the Proceedings for 1913 and 1914; a very acceptable 

 help, as the demand for illustrations has been in excess of the 

 average. 



Two new Members were elected during the year, five Members 

 resigned, and five senior Members have been removed by death, 

 so that our numbers have been diminished somewhat. 



Mr. Edward G. W. Palmer, who passed away on May 15th, 

 joined the Society in 1885. For a number of years he was 

 Secretary of the Civil Service Board, until this was replaced by 

 the Public Service Board. Mr. Palmer was a Member of 

 the Council from 1891-94; and subsequently, from 1895-1909, he 

 was good enough to act as one of the Society's Honorary Auditors. 

 He was interested in Natural History, and particularly in An- 

 thropology, as he had had the opportunity of seeing a good deal 

 of the Blacks in his younger days. Until lately, he frequently 

 attended the Meetings, and occasionally exhibited specimens of 

 interest. Mr, Palmer, as far as he could, was ever ready to 

 forward the Society's interests; just as much of his time, in his 

 later years, was ungrudgingly devoted to philanthropic and other 

 good work. 



Mr. Henry J. Brown, who died on 12th August, at the ad- 

 vanced age of over 80 years, had been a Member of the Society 

 since 1887. He resided at Newcastle, where he had practised 

 as a Solicitor for many years, and was well known. Mr. Brown 

 seems to have maintained his interest in Natural History to the 

 end of his life; but as he lived at a distance from Sydney, and 

 was unable to attend the Meetings, he was personally known to 

 but few Members. 



