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anticipated that ample materials will be furnished by the 

 Port Phillip Biological Survey Committee, which is pro- 

 secuting its labours in a manner that promises to justify the 

 expectation. A second grant of £50 has been made in aid 

 of the Committee. 



Your Committee regrets that, in view of the increased 

 expenditure involved in this cliange, an a])plication which 

 was made to the Government fcr an increase to the j^early 

 grant in aid, was too late in the year to be of any avail, and 

 it ventures to urge upon the Society and the next Council 

 the necessity of renewing the appeal to the Government 

 immediately, as the cost of continuing such publications is 

 quite beyond the present means of the Society. 



Your Council considered it both due and advantageous to 

 the Society to recommend the appointment of several dis- 

 tinguished scientific men in different countries as Honorary 

 Members of the Society, and on the ] 5th of November, six 

 gentlemen were duly elected by the Ordinary Meeting. 



Your Council strongly recommends its successor to 

 institute an early revision of the list of societies with which 

 this Society exchanges publications. 



Appended will be found the names of nineteen new Mem- 

 bers and Associates, which have been added to the list during 

 the year : — Ordinary Members — Mr. Richard Bastow, Mr. S. 

 C. Candler, Mr. J. M. Coane, Mr. E. J. F. Love, M.A., Dr. Alex. 

 Morrison, and Mr. W. H. Nimmo. Country Members — Mr. 

 A. W. Dixie, Mr. James Ivey, Mr. Newton E. Jennings, C.E. ; 

 and Mr. Henry Shaw. Associates — Mr. Wm. Swan and Mr. 

 James Wilson. Honorary Members — The Hon. J. W. Agnew, 

 M.D., M.E.C., Hobart ; Dr. Bancroft, Brisbane, Queensland ; 

 the Hon. John Forrest, C.M.G., West Australia ; Sir James 

 Hector, K.C.M.G., F.Pt.S., Wellington, New Zealand ; the 

 Hon. W. McLeay, M.L.C., F.R.S., Sydney ; Mr. H. C. Russell, 

 F.R.S., F.R.A.S., Sydney. 



Jonkeer Daniel Ploos van Amstel (having gone to Europe), 

 Mr. F. H. Baker, Mr. F. R. Godfrey, have resigned their 

 membership of the Societ}', and one Associate (Mr. C. G. Y. 

 Williams) has done the same. The following Members have 

 been lost to the Society by death, viz., Professor H. M. 

 Andrew, M.A., and Mr. Germain Nicholson, J.P. 



Your Council, in revising the Members' list, has found cause 

 for omitting the names of some persons who were defaulters 



