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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, 
and that in the Proceedings of the Society for 1894-95 will 
appear various important papers bearing on different branches of 
natural science. Amongst these may be mentioned further con- 
tributions to the botany of South Australia, both recent and 
fossil ; descriptions of new shells and a more elaborate study of 
species previously known; continued contributions to entomology ; 
geological papers relating to the marine tertiaries of Australia 
and the glacial features at Hallett’s Cove; descriptions of new 
foraminifera ; and a study of the brain of notoryctes. An im- 
portant vocabulary of the natives of Port Darwin has also been 
added to those already known, and a description of one of the 
jealously-guarded rites of the aborigines of Australia. 
The Council has also much pleasure in reporting that Sir Thomas 
Elder has furnished the necessary funds for completing the third 
and final part of the volume which has been dedicated to record- 
ing the scientific results of the Elder Exploring Expedition. 
This part will contain the botanical and anthropological results 
of the Expedition, and will be profusely illustrated, making with 
the previous two parts a valuable contribution to the scientific 
exploration of Australia. 
During the past year three new Fellows and one Associate 
have been elected ; one Corresponding Member and one Fellow 
have died ; and four Fellows have resigned. 
The obituary includes the name of T. H. McGillivray, 
M.R.C.S., Eng., F.L.S., of Sandhurst, Victoria, a Corresponding 
Member of this Society. He was elected in 1889, and was well 
known for his contributions to Australian Polyzoa, recent and 
tertiary. A list of the Polyzoa from the Cape Otway beds was 
communicated by him to this Society only a few weeks ago, and in 
Vol. XII. of the Society’s Proceedings is published a list of South 
Australian Polyzoa furnished by him. His opus magnum, the 
Tertiary Polyzoa of Victoria, is in course of publication under 
the auspices of the Royal Society of Victoria. 
It is with regret also that the Council has to refer to the death 
of one of its oldest Fellows in the person of George Mayo, 
F.R.C.S., Eng., who was elected in 1853, the year in which the 
Society was started under the name of the Philosophical Society 
