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REPORT. 



The Council of the Royal Society have the honour to present their 

 Report for 1908 to the Annual General Meeting of the Society. 



Nine Monthly General* Meetings and one Special General Meeting 

 were held during the year. Eleven Ordinary Meetings and four Special 

 Meetings of the Council were held during the same period. 



Twenty-seven Fellows and three Associates were elected, and 

 fifteen Fellows allowed their membership to lapse during the same 

 period, and the deaths of three Fellows were recorded. 



Three vacancies in the Council occurred through the retirement of 

 Mr. A. G. Webster. Colonel Legge. and the Right Rev. Dr. Mercer 

 (Bishop of Tasmania), and were respectively filled by the election of 

 Dr. Noetling, Mr. E. L. Piesse, and Mr. A. D. Watchorn. 



On the retirement of Mr. Webster, who had been a member of the 

 Council for thirty-nine years, and Chairman of the Council for some 

 years past, the Council expressed their appreciation of the services 

 rendered by him during his long connection with the Society. 



At a Special General Meeting on November 25, 1908, an amendment 

 of Rule 16 was adopted, to the effect that the annual subscription should 

 be reduced to £1 in the case of Fellows resident more than fifteen 

 miles from Hobart. 



The following papers were read during the Session of 1908: — 



Notes on a Chipped Boulder from near Kempton, by Fritz Noet- 

 ling, M.A., Ph.D. 



On State Borrowing and Sinking Funds for the Redemption of 

 State Debts regarded from an Economical Point of View, by R. M. 

 Johnston, F.L.S., I.S.O. 



