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ANNUAL REPORT, 1907-8. 



The Council has the pleasure to report that during the 

 year the work of the Society has included some important 

 papers by Prof. Bragg and Dr. Madsen, of the University of 

 Adelaide, recording their investigations of the nature and 

 forms of electric radiations. Both these gentlemen are soon 

 to leave this State — Professor Bragg to undertake research 

 work at the University of Leeds, England, while Dr. Madsen 

 returns to his "Alma Mater," the University of Sydney. The 

 Council regrets the loss to the Society of two such valued 

 members, but wishes them success and advancement each in 

 his particular work. 



Papers have been received from Dr. Verco in continua- 

 tion of his classification and descriptions of the Marine Mol- 

 lusca of South Australia, and from Dr. W. G. Woolnough, of 

 the University of Sydney, on the still debatable geological 

 formations of the Mount Lofty Ranges. Mr. Zietz has given 

 a synopsis of the Fishes of South Australia, and Mr. W. H. 

 Baker lias contributed further descriptions of the Crus- 

 tacea of the same Province, while the Rev. Mr. Blackburn 

 and Mr. A. M. Lea have each continued his classification and 

 descriptions of the Coleoptera, and Dr. Jefferis A. Turner and 

 Mr. Oswald B. Lower of the Lepidoptera. 



Many curious and interesting specimens in natural his- 

 tory have been exhibited by members during the year. 



As a necessary corollary to this varied work the publi- 

 cations of the Society are increasingly in demand for ex- 

 change with learned Societies in all parts of the world. The 

 list of exchanges now includes the names of 184 Societies; of 

 these eighty-four are European and forty American. It is 

 intended, as soon as shelving accommodation is provided for 

 the Library, to bind the publications of these Societies as 

 rapidly as means will permit. In the meantime the Council 

 has regretfully to state that the Library, which every year 

 is becoming increasingly valuable, is still in a chaotic con- 

 dition, owing to the want of these shelves. 



The Clarke Memorial Medal has been awarded to Mr. 

 W. Howchin, F.G.S., by the Royal Society of New South 

 Wales, in recognition of his long-continued scientific labours, 

 and more particularly on account of his important discoveries 

 of evidences of a great ice age in earlier [lower] Cambrian 

 times in Australia, and also for his original work on extinct 

 forms of Foraminifera. 



Endowment and Research Fund. — This fund has re- 

 ceived generous recognition at the hands of our President (Dr. 

 Verco) and of Mr. Thomas Scarfe, who have each given 



