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The following office-bearers were unanimously elected : — 

 President, A. F. Basset Hull; vice-presidents, Dr. J. A. Leach 

 Chas. A. Barnard ; hon. secretary, W. H. D. Le Souef ; hon 

 treasurer, Z. Gray ; hon. librarian, W. B. Alexander ; hon. editor 

 of Emu, Dr. J. A. Leach; hon. assistant editor, R. H. Croll 

 hon. press correspondent, Dr. Brooke Nicholls ; hon. auditors, 

 J. Barr, J. Hedding. 



Local State Secretaries : — New South Wales, A. S. Le Souef ; 

 South Australia, Capt. S. A. White ; Western Australia, W. T. 

 Forster ; Tasmania, Clive E. Lord ; New Zealand, W. R. B. OUver ; 

 Queensland, A. H. Chisholm ; Northern Territory, G. F. Hill. 



Members of Council : — ^Victoria, Gen. C. S. Ryan, C.B., A. H. E. 

 Mattingley, A. C. Stone, F. E. Howe; New South Wales, Dr. J. 

 Burton Cleland, Dr. D'Ombrain ; Queensland, Dr. T. Harvey 

 Johnstone, E. M. Cornwall ; South Austraha, Edwin Ashby, 

 J. W. Mellor; Western Australia, Major A. E. Le Souef, P. T. 

 Sandland ; Tasmania, Robert Hall, H. Stuart Dove. 



The following new members had also been elected by the 

 Council during the past year : — 



Victoria. — Mr. G. Murray Black, Tarwin Lower ; Dr. J. L. 

 Blakie, Surrey Hills ; Dr. R. J. Bull, Surrey Hills ; Mr. F. Doyle, 

 Melbourne ; Mr. Frank Francis, A. I.E., Broadmeadows Camp ; 

 Mr. A. MacCaskill, jun., Coleraine ; Mr. W. J. O'Neill, Melbourne ; 

 Mr. H. Pye, Dookie ; Mr. G. M. Quiney, Ascot Vale ; Mrs. Ellis 

 Rowan, Upper Macedon ; Mr. G. E. Shepherd, Somerville ; Mr. 

 H. E. Starke, Malvern ; Mr. Hedley Smith, St. Kilda ; Sir Baldwin 

 Spencer; Mr. J. M. Thomson, Hawthorn; Mr. H. S. Trevena, 

 Fairfield ; Mr. R. Voige, Casterton. 



New South Wales. — Mr. Wm. Brennan, Moree ; Mr. Neville W. 

 Cayley, Sydney ; Mr. T. H. Clee, Moree ; Mr. R. G. Hays, Armi- 

 dale ; Mr. A. P. Kemp, Quirindi ; Dr. W. J. S. M'Kay, Sydney; 

 Mr. J. MacPherson, SydrTey ; Mr. Howard Macfarlanc, Bathurst ; 

 Mr. F. L. Robin, Sydney; Mr. James Sloane, Mulwala ; Miss N. 

 Curwen-Walker, Moree. 



Queensland.— Mr. H. J. Kersey ; Mr. H. A. Longman, Brisbane ; 

 Mr. T. C. Marshall, Brisbane. 



South Australia.— Mr. J.N. M'Gilp, Copley ; Rev. A. H. Nutting, 

 Port Augusta ; Mr. J. H. Welfare, Semaphore. 



Western Australia. — Hon. Justice R. B. Burnside, Perth, 



Tasmania. — ^Mr. R. W. Legge, Cullenswood. 



India. — ^Mr. W. A. Tucker, C.P., Sangar. 



Norway. — ^The Librarian, Zoological Museum, Christiania. 



The notice by Mr. A. J. Campbell that rule 6 be altered from 

 " seven " to " ten " members, and by Mr. W. B. Alexander that 

 all presidents be ex-officio vice-presidents, having been brought 

 up for discussion, were withdrawn for the present, on the hon. 



