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pleased to intimate his acceptance of the position of President 

 of the Society. 



Seven Monthly General Meetings and one Special General 

 Meeting were held during the year. Eleven Ordinary Meetings 

 and four Special Meetings of the Council were held during the 

 same period. 



Twenty-nine Fellows were elected, one Associate became a 

 Fellow, and thirteen Fellows and one Associate allowed their 

 membersliip to lapse, and the deaths of three Fellows were re- 

 corded. The total number of Members of the Society were one 

 hundred and thirty-nine Fellows, including nnie Life Members 

 and two Associates. Sir Ernest Shackleton was elected an 

 Honorary Member. 



Two vacancies occurred in the Council through the resigna- 

 tion of Sir Elliott Lewis and Dr. Elkington, and were respec- 

 tively filled by the election of Dr. G. A. Webster and Dr. Arthur 

 Clarke. 



At a Special General Meeting on August 9, 1909, Rule 44 

 was altered by striking out the last paragraph, which refei-recl 

 to an Address by the President at the first ?\Ionthly General 

 Meeting in each year. 



The Committee appointed to arrange the Library Fund 

 found it necessary to sort out the Society's own publications 

 before attempting the vv'ork in the Library Room, because it 

 was discovered that the set of the Society's own publications in 

 the Library was incomplete. 



This task proved to be more difficult than it was anticipated, 

 because the back numbers had got mixed' up with all sorts of 

 useless printed matter, and stock had apparently not been taken 

 for years. 



After a considerable amount of work tlte Committee suc- 

 ceeded in bringing together a complete sec of the Society's 

 publications from 1845 up to date; the volumes were bound in 

 their original co\crs, and the set now in the Library is prob- 

 ably the only complete set of the Publications rif the Royal 

 Society of Tasmania. Copies of the missing Annual Reports 

 were als') found, and two complete sets from 1845 to 1892 were 

 bound. 



The aggregate number of the back volumes is 2,759 '" 'ih- 

 which, valued at is. per volume, represent an asset of £137 iQs. 



The following Papers were read din-ing the Session of 1909: — 



Records of Tasmanian Botanists, by J. II. ^^aiden, F.L.S. 

 (Corresponding Member). 



A Peculiar Group of Tronattas, In' Fritz Noetling, M.A.. 

 Ph.D. 



Red Ochre and its Use bv the Aborigines of Tasmania, bv 

 Fritz Noetling, M.A., Pli.D. ' 



