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president’s address. 
the extension of human knowledge as those of Britain (the parent 
of all), of America and of Gennany. 
The Linnean Society of New South Wales numbers at present 
174 members, 11 having been removed by death, resignation or 
otherwise, and 15 new members having been elected during the 
year. 
The Council has elected Mr. W. M. Bale, F.RM.S. of Mel- 
bourne, and the Rev. T. Blackburn, B.A. of Adelaide, as Corre- 
sponding Members. 
Three members have deceased in the course of 1888, The Right 
Hon. W. B. Dailey, Mikluho-Maclay, and Dr. Ewan. 
The Right Honourable W. B. Dalley. — It would be an 
unreasonable and needless repetition of eulogies, the echoes 
of which have not yet died away, if I were to indulge in 
any particular reminiscences of our departed friend ; of his 
generosity, wit, and extraordinary capacity. For his name 
is known, as that of no other Australian is, throughout the 
British people, outspread and dispersed as they are over the 
habitable glol>e ; and that one action of his by which all at once 
his fame was won has thrown a fresh and splendid illumi- 
nation upon the hidden strength and unrecognized resources 
of that vast Society. I turn from these thoughts, which indeed 
are hardly in keeping with the purpose of this address, and alx>ut 
which there may perhaps be some difference of opinion, to one 
smaller remembrance in which we all equally partake, and in 
which we cannot but be unanimous. I refer to his speech at the 
dedication of this Linnaean Hall, a little more than three years 
ago, in which he proposed the health of the donor, and in the 
unlaboured sentences of which we see disclosed, incidentally and 
unconsciously, something of that enthusiastic and affectionate 
disposition which formed a main element in his character, and 
which was perhaps more attractive and engaging than all his other 
great qualities. Mr. Dailey was an original Member of the Society. 
