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Rod. The latter post he held till 1908. He was a member 
of various other societies and was actively interested in all 
public matters. 
I think that this is an appropriate occasion to refer 
to the loss to science caused by the death of Dr. T. 8. Hall, 
M.A., D.Sc., Lecturer in Biology in the University of 
Melbourne, and a prominent member of the Royal Society 
of Victoria. He ranked as a world-wide authority on the 
Graptolites and by his death Australia has lost one of her 
foremost paleontologists. 
It is our privilege to congratulate three of our cor- 
responding members on winning laurels in 1915—Professor 
T. W. E. David, C.M.G., B.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., of Sydney 
University, on his being awarded the Wollaston Medal 
of the Geological Society of London in recognition of his 
work on Antarctic and Australian geology ; Mr. J. H. Maiden, 
Director of the Botanic Gradens, Sydney, firstly on his 
election as a Fellow of the Royal Society (London), and 
secondly on his gaining the Linnean Medal of the Linnean 
Society of London for his valuable work on Australian 
botany; and also Prof. J. A. Pollock, D.Sc., of Sydney 
University, on his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society 
(London). 
One of our members, H. C. Richards, lecturer in geo- 
logy in the University of Queensland, was awarded the 
degree of D.Sc., by the Melbourne University for his thesis 
on the voleanic rocks of South Eastern Queensland, which 
has just been published by this Society. His investigation 
has extended over several years and has added consider- 
ably to our knowledge of the geology of this State. 
Walter and Eliza Hall Fellowships. 
The trustees of the Walter and Eliza Hall Trust have 
established certain fellowships in the University of Queens- 
land and these, it is hoped, will be the means of enabling 
research work of a high order to be carried out in this 
State. They will be an enduring monument to the names 
of the two generous donors who have bequeathed their 
wealth in such a way as to benefit educational and other 
institutions in Eastern Australia. It is to be hoped that. 
