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been conducted during the year. Mr. J. Barnard 

 seconded. The vote having been accorded, 



Dr. Agnew expressed his gratification at re- 

 ceiving the thanks of the Fellows. On this occasion 

 he had quite hoped to be able to say the Society 

 was free from debt, but the unforeseen expendi- 

 ture referred to in the report (the greater portion 

 of which would not occur again) had deprived him 

 of that pleasure. He might mention that we were 

 about to make use, for the first time, of the large 

 building we had recently become ^possessed of. 

 A quantity of unclassified material would soon be 

 removed into it from the large room upstairs, 

 which would be a great boon to the Museum by 

 affording greater sj^ace for the exhibition of speci- 

 mens of the Tasmanian Fauna and Flora. To 

 carry out these arrangements would, of course, be 

 the duty of the Curator, Mr. Eoblin, and he (Dr. 

 Agnew) was glad to take this opportunity of 

 expressing his sense of the great value to the 

 Museum of the services of the Curator. Not only 

 was Mr. Eoblin well versed in all the duties 

 peculiarly incidental to a Museum, but his accuracy 

 in all the various accounts of the Society and the 

 Public Gardens was well known to, and appre- 

 ciated by, both the Monthly and Annual Auditors. 

 He only regretted that the Society was not in a 

 position to ofPer Mr. Eoblin a salary at all com- 

 mensurate with his deserts. 



Mr. Allport also bore testimony to the skill, 

 courtesy, and devotion to his duties of the Curator. 



The meeting terminated with a vote of thanks 

 to the Chairman. 



