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Papers and Proceedings. 

 The Volume of the Papers and Proceedings for the year 

 will be found to compare favourably with previous years, but 

 financial considerations have made it necessary to refuse or 

 postpone papers which would otherwise have been included. 



R. M. Johnston Memorial. 



The first R. M. Johnston Memorial lecture was delivered 

 by Professor Sir T. W. Edgeworlh David on Monday, 8th 

 October; a full report appears in the Papers published for the 

 year. 



Tasvian Memorial. 



At the Annual Meeting of the Society held on 8th March, 

 19'20. Sir Herbert Nicholls drew attention to the need for a 

 memorial to commemorate the visit of Tasman in 1G42. At 

 a meeting of the Historical Section held on 26th October, Mt. 

 Lord drew attention to the matter, with the result that the 

 matter was taken up by the Section. The investigations of 

 the Historical Section, however, were not final'sed owing to 

 the fact that Mr. J. Moore-Robinson and Mr. Juhii Kennedy 

 arranged a private visit to the site, and made a report direct 

 to the Council of the Society. Acting upon this report the 

 Council authorised the erection of a memorial on the site 

 selected by this expedition. The exact position chosen by 

 this expedition as being in their opinion the landing place 

 of Tasman's carpenter is at the extreme head of the inner 

 cove of Prince of Wales Bay. Later, the Historical Section 

 again took the matter up as reported in the Abstract of Pro- 

 ceedings, 17th December, 1923. The memorial was erected 

 during October by a party acting under the direction of Mr. 

 John Kennedy, and was formally unveiled by Sir Herbert 

 Nicholls on 3rd December. The erection of the memorial 

 was made possible owing to the subscriptions received from 

 members of the Society a).d others interested. 



Ohitnnry. 



It is with regret thai the Society has to record the death 

 of the following members during the year: — 



T. P. Arnold, Hobart, elected a member in 1920. 



R. W. Canning, Hobart, elected a member in 1920. 



N. Nicolscn, Campbell Town, elected a member in 1919. 



•Miss S. R. Parsons. Hobart, elected a member in 1908. 



P. S. Seager. LS.O., Hobart, elected a member in 1922. 



L. Simpson, Launceston, elected a member in 1921. 



Dr. L. Grey Thompson, Launceston, elected a member 

 in 1921. 



