ANNUAL REPORT. 



The Council has the pleasure of reporting that the work of the 

 Society has been carried on successfully during the past year. 



The exhibits have been of a varied and interesting nature, most 

 of them having been lent for the occasion by the S.A. Museum, 

 through the instrumentality of the Hon. Director (Dr. Stirling, 

 President of the Society). Ptespecting many of them Messrs. 

 Zietz and TejDper supplied interesting remarks. The Council re- 

 grets that greater interest is not taken by tlie public in these 

 exhibits, which are of great scientific value, and in some cases 

 unique. The descriptions which accompany their exhibition also 

 invests them with an interest that is frequently wanting on a 

 mere inspection in the museum cases. The Council feels that 

 these efforts on the part of exhibitors to make the meetings in- 

 teresting deserve greater appreciation than they have received. 



During the past year five Fellows have been elected, and one 

 Corresponding Member transferred to the list of Fellows. The 

 Council lias also thought proper to recommend the Society to 

 confer its highest mark of appreciation for scientific labours on 

 Mr. Robert Etheridge, of the Sydney Museum, by creating him 

 ■an Hon. Fellow. This recommendation has been unanimously 

 endorsed at a monthly meeting. 



The Council has the melancholy duty of reporting the death of 

 two of the Hon. Fellows of the Society during the past year, 

 namely, that of Col. Egerton Warburton and the Rev. J. E. 

 Tenison-Woods. 



Col. Egertox AYarburton was elected an Hon. Fellow^ in 1858, 

 ■and had thus been a member of the Society for more than 30 

 years. He arrived in South Australia in 1855, from India, and 

 was almost immediately appointed Commissioner of Police. His 

 military training and love of adventure led him early to enter 

 upon that field of exploration of the three unknown portions of 

 the province, with which his name will be ever inseparably con- 

 nected. As early as 1857 he led a party to the arid and rugged 

 regions of the G-awder Ranges, and in 1860 he examined the 

 country around the Head of the Great Australian Bight, and 

 penetrated in various directions from the coast some 60 miles in- 

 land. In 1873 he was appointed to the command of an expedition 

 which traversed the country north of Lake Amadeus, eventually 

 reaching the coast of Western Australia, after he and his party 

 had endured great privations. Such were some of the labours of 



