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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS 



1917. 



27Tn March, 1917. 

 Annual Meeting. 



The Annual General Meeting was held at the Museum 

 at 8 p.m. Mr. R. M. Jchnston, senior vice-president, 

 occupied the chair. 



In opening the .necting, Mr. Johnston said: — 

 "Before I call on the Secretary to read the Annual Report 

 of the Council for the pr.st vear, I propose to take this 

 opportunity of discharging a very pleasant duty, which 

 falls upon me as Chairman of this Annual General Meet- 

 ing. 1 have been asked to express on behalf of this 

 Society, of which Mr. Leonard Rociway is one of the most 

 distinguished members, the gratification with which it 

 received the announcement that his splendid contributions 

 t3 Australian science have been recognised by His Majesty 

 the King, who has been graciously pleased t<< create Mr. 

 Rodway a Companion of the Distinguished Order of St. 

 Michael and St. George. I am sure we are all most 

 heartilv pleased that Mr. Rodway has received this proud 

 distinction, for we all know how justly it is deserved. 

 Since the days of Mr. Ronald Gunn, F.R.S., who was 

 Tasmanias most distinguished pioneer in the field of 

 botiinical science, there has been no local worker who has 

 laboured more indefatigablv, and certainlv no other one 

 who has accomplished such splendid results in the work 

 of systematic investigation, and in the development of 

 our knowledge of the whole range of plant life in Tas- 

 mania. How varied and wide this range is may be roughly 

 appieciated by a glance at the titles of the thirty papers 

 which are the contributions of Mr. Rodwav to the Papers 

 and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania between 

 the years 1892 and 1916. These papers include his sys- 

 tematic descriptive catalogue of all known species of 

 Tasnianian Bryophyta (mosses and hepatics), which, when 

 published in a complete form, will be a fitting complement 

 to his splendid work on "The Flora of Tasmania," pub- 

 lished in 1903 by the Government of Tasmania Not only 

 these works, but also his gratuitous services to Tasmanian 

 Forestry, afford evidence of the invaluable services 

 rendered by him to the country of his adoption during the 

 last quarter of a century. Mr. Rodwav, I offer you, on 



