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•\vas due to Sir William Stawell for being one of the founders 

 of the Society. He would also be remembered at the 

 University, where for some time he filled the position of 

 Chancellor, and where the Stawell Scholarship was founded 

 by him. He had passed away in the fulness of his years, 

 and he would be missed in the scientific as well as in the 

 political and judicial world. 



Annual Report. 



The Council of the Royal Society herewith ]3resents to 

 the Members of the Society the usual Annual Report for the 

 year 1888. The following were the papers read during the 

 Session : — 



On the 8th of March, 1888, Dr. H. C. Wigg read the first 

 " On the Proposed Introduction of New Diseases into Aus- 

 tralia." 



On the 1 2th of April, Mr. Robert Abbott's paper on " The 

 Maintenance of Energy," was read hj one of the Honorary 

 Secretaries; and Mr. Newton E. Jennings' paper on "Irriga- 

 tion and Water Supply in the Australian Colonies," was read 

 by the President. 



On the 10th of May, Mr, Thomas Wakelin's paper, entitled 

 "An Experiment to show how the Earth is made to Gravitate 

 Towards the Sun," was read by one of the Hon. Secretaries. 

 Mr. A. Dendy read one " On the Anatomy of an Arenaceous 

 Polyzoon;" and Professor Spencer read some "Notes on the 

 Presence of a Fluke in the Egg of the Common Fowl." 



On the 1-itli of June, Professor Spencer read a paper " On 

 the Presence of a Pentastomum parasitic in the Lung of 

 Hoplocephalus superbus." Mr. A. Dendy contributed " A 

 List of all the Species of Sponges described by Mr. T. J. 

 Carter, F.R.S., together with tlie latter's more important 

 references to the Species described by other Authors ; " and 

 Professor Spencer read another " On the Presence of a Rare 

 Cestode Amphiptyches in Callorynchus antarcticus." 



On the 12th of July, Mr. T. S. Hall's paper "On Two New 

 Fossil Sponges from Sandhurst," was ])resented by Mr. Dendy, 

 and read by one of the Hon. Secretaries. Mr. Dendy gave "A 

 Preliminary Account of tlie Anatomy and Development of 

 Stelospongus fiabellifoimis." The Piesident next described 

 the Hawkesbury Railway Bridge, then in course of construc- 

 tion in New Soutlj Wales. 



