Annual Meeting, 1924. 771 
. PUBLICATION CoMMITTEE’s REPORT. 
At the tim of making this report (19th December, 1923) volume 54 is still 
unpublished. The early session of 1923 began just before the concluding portion of 
the volume was finished, and since then one vexa aes 8 н; y and another has put it 
i olidays. 
committee has done what it could to ex the issue = ae volume, and 
can only suggest that the пере urge the Hon. the srg to i -€— pe Pri vad 
h t E 
ists of xxx E 920 pages tot which us Tow арно 49 pages), 85 plates, а 
numerous died e 
E the various societies have not bent included ; societies failed to send 
n 
apers read, some o 1 
several of the societies print and distribute their own annual report in their own form, 
and as this printed report is th i ve m in the Transactions it was 
and Ju dgio of the TE beri js following Mapa AG es already 
іп the panes s han y papers by twen d authors submitted for 
коео» but owing to sertim authors declining to make sugges sted ‘alterations: these 
e reduced to twenty-six papers by twenty-one au 
i ke quite a small volume ; id the Pega would like to 
be 
the final) of Bulletin No. 1 was issued during the year, and Dixon's mosses 
would vie have been issued ke for the fact that the рм» had been lost by the printer. 
A new one was obtained, a he bulletin will be out early in the year. 
d the Committee. 
JOHANNES C. ANDERSEN. 
Pan-Pacific Congress.—Report was received. It was resolved, on the 
motion of the President, That the incoming President be the Institute’s 
representative on the Pan-Pacific Congress Committee. 
Report or Pan-Pactric SCIENCE CONGRESS. 
The second Pan-Pacific Science Congress, to which Dr. Allan ‘Thomson, De P. 
Marshall, "And I had the honour to be the Institute's ipee rtr А белой i6 исте 
session on the 13th August, and its Sydney session on the 23rd, concluding there 
the 3rd September. In Melbourne the session was open’ y the Quies Qoid, f 
uci the Right асте Henry W. B. Forster, and in Sydney by the 
His 
State Governor, His Excellency Sir William Davidson. The addresses of both were 
нр апа d i at of Sir William Davidson in particular was 
eminently classical, and it has still the mournful consideration for us that it was the 
t 
last public address that he gave. By his death shortly after the Congress concluded 
science lost a friend and humanity a servant of magnificent gifts and rms; id devotion. 
was attended by eminent men from every country that has a 
Pacific coast, except South American countries, and by eminent men from Britain 
It re marked keen devotion to work, and great number of 
important questions that were consider Its fine effects 1 n many 
of the del nd on many of members of the Australian publie. as, 
indeed, the keenest interest manifested by the public in all the proc oceedings. Amonr 
the minor Seok Be bat an "e ной the feeling Ж attraction that was felt and 
зову expressed by subsets of — rg es for peerk = and for the 
iun people, VA ha preie Aan ia of m к nd o re rom this 
ven material ciim will result to Аааа э the liberal үрбү that made 
rs holding of the C possible. 
Among the g ecient decisions of the Congress was one for the setting-up о 
Organization Coma mittee isting of rep entatives of the various Pacific cues 
О M t Britain. It falls to the Institute to elect the New Zealand representative. 
invitation of the delegates from Japan, the next Congress will be held in 
n 1926 
that fuo vig 
Н. B. Kirk. 
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