ANNUAL MEETING. 61 
animal which had been stranded in the estuary of the Brisbane 
River 
Mr. Alexander Turner exhibited the felted silken-investing 
web of a caterpillar’s nest, which had been sent to him from 
the Maranoa district, where nests, similar to that from which 
the specimen had been derived, are very numerous, and drew 
attention to the favourable appearances of the silk composing it, 
Mr. C. W. De Vis exhibited a sample of antimony regulus, 
which had been forwarded from Northcote to the Queensland 
Museum by Mr. Field of that district. 
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ANNUAL MEETING, FRIDAY, 24th JULY, 1885, 
Tue Presipent, J. BANCROFT, Esq., M.D., 1 rae Cuar. 
=, ‘The following Report OF THE CounciL and Batance SHEET 
were read, and afterwards, on the motion of L. A. Bernays, Esq., 
F.L.S., etc., adopted :— 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 
To the Members of the Royal Society of Queensland. 
GENTLEMEN,—Your Council has pleasure in congratulating 
you on the satisfactory progress of the Society since the date of 
the last annual meeting. 
On the books of the Society there are now 121 members— 
inclusive of 13, whose subscriptions for 1884 are still in arrear. 
During the past year the Society has had to regret the loss of 
Mr. D. MacCennel, of Cressbrook, and Mr. A. E. Phillips, of 
Pine Hill. 
