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ANNUAL REPORT. 



The Council has to report that the scientific work of the 

 Society has been carried on successfully during the past year. In 

 addition to papers from local workers, the Society has received 

 valuable contributions from scientific authorities in Europe, to 

 whom material had been forwarded for critical determination. 

 Part I. of the current year's transactions was published in July, 

 and it is anticipated that part II., completing vol. XVII., will 

 be ready for distribution in December. As has before been 

 stated, vol. XYI. has been reserved for the scientific results of 

 the Elder Exploring Expedition, of which parts I. and II. have 

 already been published. 



During the past year two Corresponding Members have been 

 elected, viz., the Rev. D. Mackillop, S.J., and W. G. Stretton, 

 who have both added to our knowledge of the ethnology of the 

 Northern Territory of South Australia. There have also been 

 elected seven Fellows and one Associate. You will also be asked 

 to ballot as Honorary Fellows the two distinguished scientists. 

 Marquis de Gregorio and M. Cossmann, whom the Council has 

 thought proper to recommend on account of their valuable 

 services to the Society and their distinguished position in science. 

 The following Fellows have resigned : — Edwin Ashby, E. C. 

 Saunders, and W. Russell ; and as an Associate — Mrs. Hodgson, 

 who was elected in 1884. 



The following Fellows have had their names removed by the 

 Council for non-payment of arrears of subscription : — Thomas 

 Eyers, A. T. Magarey, M. Salom, J. J. Stuckey, and P. H. 

 Priestley. 



The Council has also the melancholy duty of reporting the 

 death of two Fellows — Dr. Renner and Dr. Davies Thomas. 



In the premature death of Dr. Davies Thomas science lost one 

 of her most ardent and indefatigable students in a domain which 

 he had made all his own, namely, the study of the life-history in 

 Australia of Hydatids. The medical bearing of most of the 

 subject rendered the Transactions of this Society not the best 

 suited for the publication of the results of Dr. Davies Thomas' 

 researches, hence the small reference made to them in its pages. 

 A monograph, however, is in the press dealing with the whole 

 subject of his investigations, and containing as well some 

 posthumous articles of Dr. Davies Thomas, which will form a 



