Proceedings, &c. xxix 



Nine ordinary members and one honorary member have been 

 added to the roll of the Society. 



Your Honorary Treasurer submits a progress balance sheet, 

 from which it will be seen that only ,£137 lis. has been collected 

 for subscriptions and entrance fees during this session ; but as 

 scarcely six months have elapsed since the last balance sheet was 

 laid before the Society, this amount cannot be considered the 

 annual revenue of the Society, and it may be mentioned that a 

 considerable sum in the nature of arrears, remains to be collected. 



In consequence of the desire of your Council that their General 

 Report should be accompanied by the Final Report of the Explora- 

 tion Committee, whose labours are now drawing to a close, it has 

 been deemed expedient to submit on this occasion merely this brief 

 outline of the labours of this Society during the past six months. 

 The proceedings of your Council have been much interwoven 

 with those of the Exploration Committee, and at an ordinary 

 meeting of this Society, His Excellency the President, presented 

 to Mr. King (the survivor of the Burke and Wills Expedition) the 

 gold watch awarded to him (Mr. King) by the Royal Geographical 

 Society of England, and also introduced those enterprising and 

 successful explorers, Messrs. Landsborough and M'Kinlay, and the 

 Commander in Chief of the Victorian Relief Contingents (Captain 

 Norman), but it is considered that the details of these highly inte- 

 resting meetings, will fall more appropriately, within the scope of 

 the proceedings of the Exploration Committee. 



The following office bearers and members of Council, retire by 

 rotation, but will be eligible for re-election in March next : — 



President : 

 His Excellency, Sir Henry Barkly, K.C.B., &c, &c, &c. 



Vice-Presidents : 



Sir William Stawell. 

 Rev. Dr. Bleasdale. 



Treasurer : 

 H. F. Eaton, Esq. 



Secretary : 

 Hon. John Macadam, M.D., &c. 



Members of Council : 



Hon. John O'Shanassy. 



Sir Redmond Barry. 



W. Gillbee, Esq., M.R.C.S.E. 



R. Eades, Esq., M.A., M.D., etc. 



Professor Neumayer. 



Samuel M'Gowan, Esq. 



