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ANNUAL REPORT. 



Tlie Council has the pleasure of reporting that the work of 

 the Society has been carried on successfully during the past 

 year; and congratulates the Fellows and Members upon again 

 meeting in a room entirely devoted to the use of the Society and 

 its Sections, and excellently adapted for that purpose. It may 

 be mentioned that the room was first used by the Society for its 

 annual meeting on August 29th, 1860. 



An interesting feature of the exhibits has l^een the showing of 

 the recent accessions to the Museum collected by Dr. Stirling 

 during his trans-continental trip with His Excellency the 

 Governor, Lord Kintore, full catalogues of which have now been 

 completed by Mr. A. Zietz, the Assistant-Director of the 

 Museum. 



During the past year seven Fellows have l)een elected, and one 

 Corresponding Member transferred to the list of Fellows. 



The Council has again the melancholy duty of reporting the 

 death of three of the Fellows of the Society, namely F. S. Craw- 

 ford, Dr. R. Schomburgk, and D. B. Adamson. 



Frazer S. Crawford, who was elected a Fellow in 1865, was 

 known chiefly for his study of the various parasites affecting 

 fruits and cereals, and for his attempts to obtain reliable pro- 

 phylactics for the same. As his labours assumed, to a very large 

 extent, a practical turn, and were not directed so much to the 

 discovery of new scientific facts of an exact nature as to affording 

 useful information to the cultivators, his contributions to the 

 Transactions of the Society were but scanty, and afforded no 

 index of his untiring industry in his particular line of scientific 

 work. Hence, his reputation as a scientist was more appreciated 

 by Agricultural and Horticultural Societies, and by co-workers 

 in the same field in different parts of the world, with whom he 

 was a valued correspondent, than by this particular Society. His 

 contributions consisted of papers " On the Apricot Disease " and 

 " Notes on Certain Pores on the Veins of some Diptera." 



Richard Schomburgk, Ph.D., was elected a Fellow of the Society 

 in 1865, and was for many years an active member. Since 1878, 

 when he read a paper on " Vegetable Fragments found in the 

 tombs and other monumental buildings of the Ancient 

 Egyptians," he has not contributed anything to the published 

 Transactions of the Society. This was probably due to the full 

 occupation of his time by his official duties and his advancing 



