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Domain. 



The Domain Improvement Committee has not been 

 idle. A considerable length of new road has been made, 

 and tree planting has been carried on. It is unpleasant to 

 have to report that a few of the young trees have been 

 wantonly destroyed, but, generally speaking, the trees are 

 doing well. 



Fellows. 

 Fifty new Fellows, an unprecedented number, have 

 been elected, and six have been lost through death or 

 resignation. One of these deaths, that of Mr. Joseph 

 Milligan, claims special notice. If Sir John Franklin 

 must be called the first, Mr. Milligan may certainly be 

 reckoned as the second founder of the society. It was 

 entirely owing to his exertions that the present building 

 was erected, and it was chiefly due to his great abihties 

 and fostering care that at one period the society was safely 

 carried through difficulties which threatened its existence. 

 The number of Fellows is 150. 



Meteorology. 

 Meteorological observations have been carried on as in 

 last year. 



Council. 

 One death, that of Mr. H. J. Buckland, an old and 

 valued member of the Council, took place. The vacancy 

 was filled by the appointment of the Right Rev. Dr. 

 Sandford, Bishop of Tasmania. 



Finance. 



The income has been : — Government grant-in-aid to 

 Museum, £200; grant to Gardens, £600; annual sub- 

 scriptions to Royal Society, £196 10.«>. ; sale of plants, 

 £128 3s. 2d. ; making, with balance from 1883, 

 £1199 ll5. 2d. The expenditure amounted to £1169 

 \s. 5d., leaving a balance to credit £30 9^. 9d. 



It is a matter of deep satisfaction that the grant for 

 1885 to the Museum has been augumented by £100, and 

 that to the Gardens by £200. These additions have been 

 long and urgently needed. 



