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Appendix V. 



ORDINARY MEMBERS ELECTED DURING THE 

 SESSION 1892-93. 



Adoption of Repokt. 



Mr. Richard Edwards moved the adoption of the report, 

 which was seconded by the Rev. W. Whale, and carried. 



Mr. J. R. Sankey (Honorary Treasurer) presented the state- 

 ment of income and expenditure, the adoption of which he moved, 

 seconded by Mr. S. W. D'Arcy- Irvine, and carried. 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



By John Shirley, B.Sc, District Inspector of Schools. 



Read at the Annual Meeting, July 22, 1893. 



A REVIEW OF RECENT BOTANICAL WORK IN AUSTRALIA. 



During the past fifteen years my spare time has been given to 

 the study of Australian botany. Thanks to the position held by 

 me as Inspector of Schools, I have been most favourably situated 

 for the pursuit of this study, having by constant travel acquired 

 an intimate knowledge of the Avhole of the settled districts of 

 Queensland, during which time I have gathered and mounted 

 specimens of 2,500 different species of plants, or about one-half 



