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Philadelphia. The Italian Entomological Society, Florence ; the 

 National Museum Natural History, Genoa ; the Italian Society 

 Natural History, Milan ; the Zoological Station, Naples ; and the 

 Natural Science Society, Pisa. The Anthropological Society, 

 Vienna ; also the Natural History Museum of the same 

 place. The Royal Museum of Natural History, Brussels. The 

 Asiatic Society of Japan. The Scientific Society, Mexico. The 

 Imperial Society of Naturalists, Moscow ; and the Geological 

 Society of the Institute of Mines of St. Petersburg. Also the 

 Minister of Public Instruction, Paris, has been written to ; as 

 well as the Entomological Society and Royal Academy, Brussels. 

 From Liege, the Memoirs of the Royal Society of Sciences ; and 

 from Leyden, Notes from the Leyden Museum have been received. 

 The list of Australian exchanges has also been further made up, 

 making a total of over 40 new exchanges which your Council 

 hopes in time the Society may receive. 



Following its usual custom of acting as your steward, the 

 Council has made grants of money to help in furthering certain 

 local scientific works. The most noteworthy of these were those 

 for collecting palteontological specimens at Curramulka, Y.P., and 

 the MacDonnell Ranges. 



The vacancy in the Council caused by the death of Mr. D. B. 

 Adamson was filled by the election of Mr, W. B. Poole, a 

 former member of the Council. 



The Fellows will have noticed that Part I. of the current 

 year's Transactions has already been published and issued ; and 

 that the artistic work displayed in the illustration of Dr. Stirling's 

 description of Notoryctes typliloi-)s is of a very high order, and 

 reflects great credit on the lithographer (Mr. H. Barrett), the 

 Society, and South Australia. 



The statement of receipts and expenditure by the Hon. 

 Treasurer (W. Rutt, C.E.) will show that the financial position of 

 the Society continues sound, notwithstanding its heavy expendi- 

 ture. 



