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The publication of "Transactions," Vol. IV., has practically 

 exhausted the funds at the disposal of the Society for publishing 

 purposes, and it has been with great regret that the Council has 

 been obliged to forego the publication of certain papers presented 

 to it. 



The Government Grant has been reduced to £100, and this, 

 together with the smaller amount received from subscriptions, 

 leaves but little money available when the necessary expenses 

 connected with the maintenance of the building and library have 

 been defrayed. 



During the past year the Society has lost by death three of its 

 most prominent members — Mr. Cosmo Newbery, Dr. P. H. 

 MacGillivray, Mr. J. Bracebridge Wilson. The first-named, 

 owing to ill-health, had been prevented during recent years from 

 taking any active part in the work of the Society, in which, 

 during earlier years, he was a prominent and active worker. At 

 the time of his death, Dr. MacGillivray was engaged upon the 

 publication of his " Monograph of the Tertiary Polyzoa," which 

 has since been issued in quarto form, illustrated by 22 plates. 

 This work will form a lasting monument to the ability and 

 enthusiastic work on the subject to which Dr. MacGillivray had 

 devoted all his leisure time. Through the generosity of the 

 Government the whole of Dr. MacGillivray's collection and his 

 valuable library of works relating to the Polyzoa have been 

 secured for the colony. 



In Mr. J. Bracebridge Wilson the Society has lost one of its 

 most active workers. It has been entirely due to his efforts 

 that a splendid collection has been made of the marine fauna 

 of Port Phillip. Various memoirs, dealing with a portion of 

 this materia], have been published by the Society, but it will be 

 many years before the whole material has been dealt with. 

 Mr. Wilson's services have always been placed ungrudgingly at 

 the disposal of the Society, to which he presented the whole of 

 his large and valuable collection, and his loss will be keenly felt. 



