ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



27th January, 1886. 



The President, Professor W. J. Stephens, M.A., in the Chair. 



President's Address. 



At the end of the Eleventh Year of the Society's ojierations, it 

 becomes my duty, as President, to lay before you a general 

 account of our proceedings during the last twelve months, and to 

 invite you to take a momentary retrosj)ect over the ground which 

 has been traversed since our course commenced. 



First, however, I have to discharge the melancholy obligation 

 of recalling to your minds the memory of those members who 

 have passed away from among us since our last annual reunion. 



Mr. Robert Archiljald Alison Morehead died on Friday, 

 January 9, at the age of 72 years. Throughout his whole 

 residence in New South Wales he had taken a warm interest in 

 the question of popular education, was a Member of the National 

 Board, and of the Council of Education after the Legislation of 

 IS^^Q, and was a Trustee of the Sydney Grammar School from its 

 foundation. He was, let me add, one of the original Members or 

 founders of this Society. 



Mr. William Augustine Duncan, C.M.G., died on Thursday, 

 June 25, in his 75th year. His literary faculty was fertile and 

 of a high order, and the exercise of his powers was directed 

 by a pure and sincere conscientiousness. Like Mr. Morehead, 

 he was a Member of the National Board, and afterwards of the 



