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eous of Queensland," by F. Chapman, A.L.S. 3. " Endopara- 

 sites of Australian Stock and Native Fauna, Pt. I., Census," by 

 Dr. Georgina Sweet. 4. The same, " Pt. II., New and unre- 

 corded species," by the same author, 5. "On the separation 

 and analysis of minerals in the dacite of Mount Dandenong, 

 Victoria," by H. C. Richards, B.Sc. 6. "Contributions to the 

 Flora of Australia, No. 10, by Prof. A. J. Ewart and Miss Jean 

 White, M.Sc. 



During the year tive members and nine associates have been 

 elected, one member and two associates have died, four associates 

 have resigned, and the names of eight associates have been 

 removed from the register. 



Alfred William Howitt, C.M.G., D.Sc, F.G.S., died in March 

 1908, having been a member for thirty years. Dr. Howitt first 

 came into public notice as the rescuer of King, the survivor of 

 the Burk'e and Wills' expedition. He became a police magistrate 

 and warden of the goldfields, and in these capacities he thoroughly 

 explored the niountains of Gippsland. He had a deep knowledge 

 of the timber trees of Gippsland. and wrote an important paper 

 on the eucalypts. He geologically surveyed and mapped the 

 country to the north of Bairnsdale, and worked out the history 

 of the Devonian rocks of eastern Victoria. As a petrologi.st he 

 was a pioneer in the days when the subject was but little studied, 

 and he prepared his own slices and made his own rock analyses. 

 It is probably as a geologist that he is best known in Australia, 

 but elsewhere he was best appreciated as an ethnologist, and 

 numerous honours were conferred on him, including the first 

 award of the Miieller medal. A fund has been founded to 

 perpetuate his memory by a medal to be awarded for valuable 

 scientific work. 



T. B. Muntz, C.E., joined the Society in 1873. He was well 

 known as a municipal engineer and as the contractor for the 

 Coode canal. Although he rarely attended our meetings he took 

 a keen interest in general science, and was a loyal supporter of 

 the Society. 



It has bf^en decided, as far as possible, to obtain portraits of 

 all past presidents, to be hung in the library, and several have 

 already been received. 



