PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
Annual Meeting of Members, 
HELD ON SATURDAY, 28th JANUARY, 1905. 
The Annual Meeting of the Society was held on Saturday, 
28th January, 1905. 
The President (Mr. John Cameron, M.L.A.) occupied the 
‘chair. 
The Minutes of the previous Annual Meeting were read and 
confirmed. 
A Paper, entitled : ‘*‘ A Preliminary Revision of the Austra- 
lian Thyridide and Pyralidw,” by Dr. A. Jefferis Turner, was 
laid upon the table. 
The President then delivered the following Address :— 
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.— 
On annual occasions such as this, it is usual that the re- 
tiring President should first place before you a brief resumé 
of the general directions in which, during the year, science 
has extended her marvellous conquests. J purpose, briefly, 
to group, under the various heads, what has been accomplished 
an these directions. 
GEOGRAPHY. 
Central Asia. Sven Hedin has proved the extraordinary 
fact that the great inland lake, Lob Nor, has vanished, 
and the waters that filled it have percolated and worked their 
way to a new area where a lake, Kara Koshum, has formed. 
ASTRONOMY. 
The number of planets has been brought up to 481, a 
remarkable ilustration of the futility of looking upon the 
