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Abstract of Proceedings. 



Report of Council for 1919. 

 To the Members of the Royal Society of Queensland. 



Your Council have i)loasure^ in submitting their Report 

 for the year 1919. 



We desire to place on record our gratification over 

 the official announcement of Peace, and our intense admir- 

 ation for the part played by men of our race and their 

 allies in the late gigantic struggle. 



Taking into consideration the effect of the influenza 

 epidemic, the work of the year has been very satisfactory, 

 twelve papers being accepted for reading and publication. 

 During the visit of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists' 

 Union to Queensland, a lecture on Central Australia was 

 delivered before the Society, by Captain 8. A. White, 

 C.M.B.O.U., of Adelaide, and the meeting was the largest 

 held within recent years. 



We have to express oiu" indebtedness to the Queensland 

 Government, who have again voted a sum of £50 to assist 

 the Society in the publication of scientific work. Our 

 thanks are also due to the Trustees of the Walter and Eliza 

 Hall .Fund, for assistance in the pubhcation of the paper 

 on " The Life Histories of Musca australis Macq., and 

 M. vetustissimaW a,\ker,'' by Prof. T. H. Johnston and Miss 

 M. J. Bancroft, Walter and Eliza Hall Fellow in Economic 

 Biology. 



