REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. Ill 



Numerous and valuable donations have been received for 

 the library, and the members now possess a collection of scientific 

 literatura of which they may justly feel proud. A list of the 

 Societies and Institutions with which the Society exchanges 

 publications will be found in Volume X of the Proceedings. The 

 <;are of the library, which is still, owing to uncertainty regarding 

 the tenure of the rooms in which the meetings are now held, 

 housed in the Queensland Museum, is a matter of some anxiety 

 to the Council. At the last annual meeting, the Hon. Librarian, 

 Mr. H. G. Stokes, tendered his resignation on the ground that he 

 had ceased to reside in Brisbane, but the Society being reluctant 

 to accept the resignation of an efficient officer, induced him to 

 continue in office in the hope that his absence would prove to be 

 only temporary. The duties of Librarian were provisionally 

 added to those of the Hon. Secretary, and it is now for the 

 Society to consider (seeing that Mr. Stokes is still absent) 

 whether a new Librarian should not be appointed, or Mr. Bailey 

 be appointed Librarian. 



The following officers, in accordance with the rules of the 

 Society, retire : — 



President, R. L. Jack, F.G.S.; Vice-President, E. Hirsch- 

 feld, M.D. ; Hon. Treasurer, James R. Sankey ; Hon. Secretary, 

 J. F. Bailey; Hon. Librarian, H. G. Stokes, F.G.S. Members 

 of Council — Hon A. Norton, M.L.C., Richard Edwards, J. P., 

 C. W. De Vis, M.A., Joseph Lauterer, M.D., F. M. BaUey, 

 F.L.S.; Hon. Auditor, A. J. Turner. 



These gentlemen, with the exception of the President and 

 Vice-President, are eligible for re-election. It is now the duty 

 of the Society to proceed to the election of officers for the ensuing 

 year. 



In consequence of the death of Dr. J. Bancroft it becomes 

 necessary under Rule 21 for the Society at this meeting to elect 

 a third trustee to act with the two surviving trustees, viz., the 

 Hon. A. C. Gregory and Mr. W. Alcock Tully. It is open to any 

 member of the Society to nominate gentlemen for this position, 

 subject to their consent. 



ROBERT L. JACK, President. 

 J. F. BAILEY, Hon. Sec. 



