ANNUAL REPORT. 
The Council has to report that the scientific work of the Society 
has been carried on satisfactorily during the past year. Part I. 
of the current year’s transactions was published in July, and it is 
anticipated that Part II., completing Vol. XV., will be ready for 
distribution in December. Vol. XVI. is reserved for the 
‘“‘ Scientific Results of the Elder Exploring Expedition,” and will 
appear simultaneously with the above. 
During the past year two Corresponding Members have been 
elected, namely, J. H. Maiden, of the Technological Museum of 
Sydney, and the Rev. Louis Schulz, a missionary, living at 
Hermansburg, near Charlotte Waters, Central Australia. Both 
of these members have contributed valuable papers to the 
Society. ; 
The following Fellows have resigned:—A. W. Fletcher, H. 
Foote, Dr. Gardner, A. L. Harrold, and J. W. Tyas. 
The following Fellow has had his name removed by the Council 
for non-payment of arrears of subscriptions, namely, Jas. H 
Loughead. 
The Council has the melancholy duty of reporting the death of 
an Hon. Fellow, Sir William Macleay ; and of a Corresponding 
Member, J. Canham. 
The ranks of scientific workers, and our list of Honorary 
Fellows, have suffered a loss by the death of Sir Witiiam 
Mac eay, and though the deceased gentleman did not contribute 
to our transactions, yet, in other ways, he was directly of great 
service to the Society. Efforts are now being made to raise a sum 
of about £400, to be applied to the publication of a Macleay 
Memorial Volume; and, ina circular issued by the promoters, 
appeal is made to your liberality on the following grounds :— 
(1) Sir W. Macleay was not only a liberal patron of science, but also an 
indefatigable worker in several of its branches. 
(2) He spent large sums of money in forming an extensive collection of 
objects of natural history and of ethnological interest, and, in order to 
increase it, he, in the year 1875, purchased and fitted out the ship 
‘‘ Chevert,” and at his sole expense conducted an expedition to the then 
little-known island of New Guinea, the result being that his museum was 
greatly enriched ; the entire collection, valued at £23,000, he afterwards 
presented to the University of Sydney, together with the sum of £6,000 to 
enable the Senate to provide a salary fora curator. 
(3) In the year 1874 Sir William established the Linnean Society of New 
South Wales for the cultivation and study of natural history in all its 
branches, on lines carefully thought out by himself; and as a proof that 
