538 president's address. 



Ichthyology. 

 Hon. William Macleay, F.L.S., E. P. Ramsay. F.L.S., Comte 

 de Castelnau, Charles W. De Vis, B.A., Baron Miklouko-Maclay, 

 Dr. H, G. Alleyne. 



Geology. 



Rev. J. E. Tenison- Woods, F.L.S., Charles W. De Yis, B.A., 

 C. S. Wilkinson, F.G.S., Charles Jenkins, L.S., Prof. W. J. 

 Stephens, M.A., Dr. J. C Cox, F.L.S., E. B. Sanger. 



Entomology. 



E. Meyrick, B.A., Hon. W. Macleay, F.L 8., H. H. B. Bradley, 

 H. R. Whittell, Dr. R. B. Read. 



Ethnology, Coslenterata, Reptilia, Crustacea, &c. 



Dr. James Cox, F.L.S., C. S. Wilkinson, F.G.S., F.L.S., W. A. 

 Haswell, M.A., B.Sc, Rev. J. E. Tenison- Woods, F.L.S., E. P. 

 Ramsay. F.L.S., Hon. William Macleay, F.L.S., Baron N. de 

 Miklonho-Maclay, J. J. Fletcher, M.A., B.Sc, Charles W. De Yis, 

 B.A., Dr, H. B. Guppy, R.~N\, Dr. Thomas Dixson, Alex. Morton, 

 Harry Gilliat. 



The papers read number 433, contributed by 37 authors of 

 whom 32 are still members of the Society, and though the 

 quantity of work may not be taken as a measure of its 

 value, yet it is specially worthy of mention not only as evidence of 

 the earnest zeal manifested by some of the Members of the Society, 

 but because the papers chiefly contain the results of original 

 research. Work of this character therefore stamps the eight 

 Volumes of the Proceedings already published as indispensable 

 works of reference in regard to future investigation. 



Several branches of Natural History have, no doubt, received 

 less attention than others, yet on the whole I think that the 

 Society, so far, has not failed in its object, and that the hope 

 expressed eight years ago by the Founder of the Society, the Hon* 

 William Macleay, in the first Anniversary Address has been 

 realized, viz. : — That a Society entirely devoted to the Cultivation 

 of Natural History might be successfully carried on in Sydney. 



