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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 
With a view to increasing the interest in our monthly 
meetings, the Council has revived, with marked success, 
the practice of exhibiting specimens of note and has also 
regularly issued to members an abstract of the proceedings 
of each meeting. 
Volume XXVII., Part I. was published in December 
last, the various numbers constituting it having been 
distributed earlier. as mentioned in the Part. Part IT. 
has just come to hand. 
In order to fill a long felt want, your Council is now 
engaged in compiling a card catalogue of the serial scientific 
and technical literature available in the various libraries 
in Brisbane, and with this end in view, has invited the 
co-operation of the University, the Queensland Museum, 
Government Scientific laboratories, the various scientific 
and professional societies and institutions as well as the 
public and parliamentary libraries. A number of the 
institutions have already given the desired information, 
while several others are now engaged in its compilation. 
When completed, this catalogue, which, it is hoped, will 
be eventually printed, should be of great assistance to 
Queensland workers in science. 
In addition to the ordinary meetings at which papers 
were read, specimens exhibited, etc., there were three 
occasions during the year when lectures were delivered 
to the members. His Excellency the Governor gave an 
interesting address on * Sidelights on South African History 
within the past thirty years,” a subject on which he is 
well qualified to speak on account of his long official con- 
nection with that portion of our Empire: Mr. F. Bridwell, 
Entomologist to Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association, 
gave an account of the work done by parasitic insects in 
controlling pests of economic importance. Mr. R. J. 
Tillyard, M.A., B.Sc., delivered a fine lecture on the “ Life 
History of a Dragon Fly,” a subject on which he is a 
recognised authority. To these three gentlemen the thanks 
of the Society are due. 
Nine members were admitted during the year, and 
there are now 12 ccrresponding members and 95 life and 
