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Your Committee has to congratulate the Society upon a 

 successful and prosperous year, and to remark that much of 

 that success is due to the exertions and activity of Professor 

 W. Baldwin Spencer. To him are mainly attributable the 

 increase of the Government gi'ant to the Society to £500, 

 which was indispensable to the continuance of the publication 

 of the New Series of the Transactions of this Society ; and 

 the pronounced success of the meeting in Januaiy of the 

 Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. 

 The forthcoming Volume of the Transactions of that body 

 will tell its own tale, and it will suffice to state here that 

 1 4)0 papers were read, and that all the details of the arrange- 

 ments worked most satisfactorily. 



Another subject of congratulation is the establishment of 

 Section G, under Law LIII, on the 23rd August. The 

 meetings of the Section were well attended, and have been 

 the means of drawing over thirty new Members and Asso- 

 ciates to the ranks of the Society. A remarkable feature in 

 connection with this matter is, that of this unusual accession 

 of Members, eight were ladies. 



Your Council was unfortunately deprived of the services 

 on the Council of Mr. E. Bage, almost immediately after his 

 election last year, as he had to proceed to Europe on business 

 in May. Mr. A. W. Howitt was, in July, elected as a Coun- 

 cillor in his place. 



The following Members and Associates were elected during 

 the year : — Members — W. H. Archer, R. Barton, Rev. Dr. 

 Bevan, Dr. Bride, J. Cameron (country), F. H. Cole, Harry 

 Edwards (country), W. R. Guilfoyle, F.L.S., E. Jager, 

 Professor H. Laurie, LL.D., Professor T. R. Lyle, M.A., Dr. 

 Wm. Maloney, D. McAlpine, F.C.S., Professor E. Morris, 

 M.A., Miss H. Neild. Associates— Rev.. W. Allen, — Baker, 

 Miss Carmichael, Thos. Curry, H. Daglish, E. Davies, Miss 

 Duerdin, D. Falk, Rev. Lorimer Fison, A. Harper, W. W. 

 Harris, J. R. Hubbard, F N. Ingamells, Hamilton Macidnnon, 

 A. G. Melville, Miss F. Moors, Miss O'Brien, Miss Osmond, 

 Rev. John Reid, J. R. Remfrey, Mrs. Riddell, J. Steele 

 Robertson, B.A., Dr. Ross, T. A. Sisley, F. Slade, Frank 

 Tate, E. A. Vidler, Mrs. R. B. Way. 



Your Council regret to have to record the loss by death 

 of several old and valued Members: — The Rev. J. E. T. 

 Woods, Rev. Dr. FitzPatrick, Mr. W. H. Steel (who was a 

 Member of the Council), Dr. H. C. Wigg. 



