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of the most advaiiC'cd tliouglit in Australasia. And that 

 when our visitors have gone there shall remain a sort of after- 

 glow — a perceptible philosophic influence, a conscious scienti- 

 fic inspiration, which shall intensify the desire for wider, 

 closer, and more careful work, and bestow a higher ajDprecia- 

 tion of everything in Nature which can be certified as fact 

 and everything in science which is confirmed as truth. 



In taking the chair as President for the coming year, 

 let me thank all my colleagues on the Council for their very 

 kindly consideration and loyal support during my term of 

 office. Entirely new to its duties, I have had much to learn and 

 still have. Let me congratulate the members of the Royal 

 Society on the good work done in the past, its healthy state 

 at present, and its favourable prospects for the future. Let 

 me encourage everyone to do something towards increasing 

 its efficiency. Make some contribution, either spoken or 

 written, an observation which seems new to you, insignificant 

 though it may appear, or ask an explanation of some pheno- 

 menon which seems strange or incomprehensible. In this way 

 you may set someone else to work, or incite someone to set 

 you to work, and so by your question if not your quest you 

 will add your mite to the treasury of science and your help 

 to the Royal Society. 



President's Address. — Mr. Howchin proposed: — 

 ■"That the President be heartily thanked for his interesting 

 and stimulating address, and that it be printed in the 

 Transactions and Proceedings for this year." Carried. 



[In April, 1905, Messrs. Iliffe and Basedow read a paper 

 before the Society on ''The Formation Known as Glacial Beds 

 of Cambrian Age in South Australia." This paper came on 

 for discussion at the following evening-meeting, and the re- 

 port of such discussion was included in the printed proceed- 

 ings. As the paper in question was not accepted for pub- 

 lication it was obviously unfair to the authors to publish cri- 

 ticisms on it. That such should have been done was an over- 

 sight and a matter of regret. — Ed.] 



ANNUAL REPORT, 1905-6. 



The Council is plea-sed to report that the work of the So- 

 ciety has been carried on successfully during the past year. 

 The discovery of radio-active minerals in the State has 



