PlHIJCATION' OF Pl!OCEEI)I>(KS. 



Your Council re<;iet tliat they have been unable to print the 

 many valuable papers whieh have been contributed by memberK 

 of the Society, and other kind friends in the Southern Colonies. 

 The heavy expense in connection with the printmg of Vol. VI. 

 for the year 1888-9, would i^.it allow your Council to incur fresh 

 liabilities, until the financial position of the Society would warrant 

 it. It is hoped, however, that at an early date, the proceedings 

 will be published re^ndarly as heretofore. Some reference may 

 be appropriately made at this point, to Ihe hope entertained by 

 the Council, that iu recognition of the practical and scientific 

 aims and achievements of the Queensland Koyal Society, the 

 Government will feel justified in according to it, some measure 

 of that material assistance towards the publication of its transac- 

 tions, that is, or has been accorded to almost every scientific 

 society, occupying a like status, in the adjoining colonies. In 

 this direction it may be mentioned, that the Koyal Society of 

 Victoria received up to last year an annual Crovernment grant 

 of £500, and this year receives £250; the Eoyal Society of 

 Xew South Wales receives £1 for every £1 collected, and at 

 its commencement was subsidised to the extent of £1000; the 

 Proceedings of the Koyal Society of Tasmania are printed by 

 the Grovernment ; the lioyal Society of South Australia receives 

 £1 for every £1 collected. 



It is furthermore worthy of record, that the Queensland 

 Eoyal Society, in the earlier years of its existence, was likewise 

 subsidised to the amount of £100 per annum, and which subsidy 

 was permitted to lapse, apparently, through the negligence of 

 the Society to energetically suppoi't their claims for its 

 continuance. 



It is a matter of much regret to the Council, that under present 

 conditions, many valuable papers relating to Queensland science, 

 offered to the Society by members and others, have to be refused, 

 and are remitted for publication in the Proceedings of Societies 

 outside Queensland. 



