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Hon. Fellows, 14 Corresponding members, and two Associates. 

 Several names, to the number o£ 16, have bad to be removed 

 from tbe roll on account of deatbs and other causes. Nine 

 new Fellows have been elected, and one Corresponding Mem- 

 ber — the Eev. C. G. Nicholay, of Western Australia. 



During the past year another Section of the Royal Society 

 has been formed, namely, the Microscopical Section. It already 

 includes many leading members of the Parent Society, as well 

 as other independent workers ; and under the guidance of its 

 first chairman (Dr. "Whittell) it has made considerable pro- 

 gress, and promises to be a valuable auxiliary. 



The reports and balance-sheets of the two Sections appear 

 satisfactory, and speak for themselves and of the particular 

 work that they are respectively accomplishing. 



It having been felt that the many valuable books of the 

 Hoyal Society of South Australia were in their present posi- 

 tion quite useless to the Fellows generally, your Council has 

 proposed to the Board of Governors of the Public Library to 

 allow a certain space for them in the Public Library, so that 

 they may be easily accessible to the Fellows. This proposal 

 has been favourably entertained by the Board, and it only re- 

 quires the duplicates to be weeded out for the proposal to be- 

 come an accomplished fact. It is hoped that this alteration 

 may prove of benefit to the Fellows. 



Duriug the past year the Society has continued to receive a 

 number of European and American and colonial periodicals on 

 scientific matters generally. The Council has had a number of 

 completed volumes bound, in order that they may be the better 

 preserved. Amongst other books may be specially mentioned 

 the receipt of additional numbers of the " Geological and 

 Natural History Survey of Canada and the United States," 

 " Eeport of the recent Volcanic Eruptions in New Zealand," 

 "A Classified Index of Naturalised and Indigenous Plants of 

 •Queensland," aud also a "Synopsis of the Queensland Flora," 

 by F. M. Bailey; "Descriptions of Papuan Plants," by Baron 

 F. v. Mueller; and by the same author, " On the Extratropical 

 Plants of Australia." 



A recommendation was made to the Board of Governors of 

 the Museum by the Council, at the suggestion of the Field 

 Naturalists' Section, with respect to the formation of a collec- 

 tion illustrative of the economic entomology of South Aus- 

 tralia. The Board expressed its sense of the importance of 

 the matter and willingness to co-operate as far as their limited 

 space would allow, if the Fellows would furuish the material. 



The Council has been communicated with in respect to the 

 holding of a Centenary Science Association in Syduey in 1888, 

 and has, on behalf of the Fellows, expressed its willingness to do 



