Ix The Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 
Colony and of the scientific treasures which it is its duty to exhibit and 
to guard. Iam persuaded also that the Society will join me in con- 
gratulating the Government on the wise step it has taken in the estab- 
lishment of a Bacteriological Institute, and on securing so able a 
bacteriologist as Dr. Edington to carry out the many important researches 
required in this department. 
In resigning this Chair, I desire to record my regret that my own 
complete absorption, for the time, on a special research has prevented me 
from taking a wider and more active part than I might otherwise have 
done in the general business of the Society. In the hands of my suc- 
cessor, Dr. Marloth, I feel assured these duties will not be neglected. 
No member of the Society has shown a deeper or truer interest in its 
success—no one a more fertile power of adding interest to its meetings. 
His geological and botanical exhibits have been more numerous than 
those of any other member, and he has taken a leading share in all our 
discussions. As an accomplished chemist, geologist, and botanist, he is 
peculiarly fitted to be our President, especially at the present time, when 
it will become one of his first duties to urge upon Government the 
necessity for setting on foot a systematic geological survey of the 
Colony. 
For the discharge of this public duty, and the many duties which a 
President owes the Society, I now resign to Dr. Marloth this Chair. 
ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 
Wednesday, August 30, 1893. 
Mr. R. Maruotsu, Ph.D., M.A., President, in the Chair, 
The undermentioned presents were announced, and the thanks of the 
Society voted to the donors : 
Results of Rain, River, and Evaporation Observations made in N. S. 
Wales in 1891. 
Results of Meteorological Observations made in N. 8. Wales in 1890. 
Sitzungberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 
Band CI., Heft 7, 8, 9, 10. 
Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 1893, 
No. 1. 
Memorias y Revista de la Sociedad Cientifica ‘Antonio Alzate,’ 
Tomo VI., Nos. 9 and 10. 
Records of the Geological Survey of N.S. Wales, Vol. III., Part 3, 
1893. 
Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, Nos. 273, 274. 
