19S ROYAL ZOOLOGICA1 SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 



Arthur Muggridge, of the firm of Pitt, Son A: Badgery, Limited, who was elected in 1913, and 

 was an enthusiastic supporter of the Society, and instrumental in securing the election of a large 

 number of new members. 



Clarence Arthur Edenborough Simms, an officer of the Department of Mine-, Sydney, elected 

 in 1917. 



The Council. 



Mr. A. E. Jaques and Dr. Sydney Dodd resigned from the Council at the beginning of the financial 

 year. Mr. Aubrey Halloran, B.A., L.L.B., and Mr. R. J. Tillyard, D.Sc, were elected to fill the 

 vacancies. Seven meetings of Council were held during the year, the attendances at which were as 

 follows : — Messrs. Hull, Waterhouse and Finckh, 7 ; Mr. Froggatt, 6 ; Messrs. Hedley and Rainbow, 

 5 ; Drs. D'Ombrain and Tillyard, 4 ; Messrs. Halloran, Shipway and Symons, 3 ; Professor Johnston, 

 Colonel Spain, Messrs. Campbell, Shiress, and McCulloch, 2. Mr. Hedley was absent from the State 

 for some months, Messrs. Shipway and Shiress were granted leave of absence for three and four months 

 respectively ; Dr. Todd was granted leave of absence for the year, being engaged in war work, and 

 Professor Chapman's duties prevented his attendance at Council meetings. 



Finances. 



The balance sheet to 30th June, 1918, covering a period of eighteen months, showed an amount 

 11I / 1 j 1 14s. 1 id. to credit, and £30 invested in War Loan Stock, as the nucleus of a Capital Fund. 

 The statement which the Honorary Treasurer will present to-day shows a credit balance of £67 lys. id., 

 and the Capital Fund is increased to £^150. The income from fines under the Birds and Native Animals 

 Protection Acts was only £T8 19s. 6d., as compared with £45 6s. 8d. for the period ended 30th June, 

 1918. This reduction is owing to the repeal of the Acts of 1901 and 1903, which have been superseded 

 by the Birds and Animals Protection Act. 1918. This Act came into force on 1st January, 1919, and the 

 payment to this Society of a moiety of the fines ceased from that date. As indicated in last year's 

 report, the Government were asked for a subsidy in consideration of the loss of the income from fines, 

 and also as a recognition of the Society's educational work, and I am now pleased to be able to 

 announce that a sum of £30 has been placed on the Estimates for that purpose by the Chief Secretary, 

 Sir George Fuller. 



Australian Zoological Handbooks. 



On the occasion of our last annual meeting I referred to the want of inexpensive handbooks to 

 the animals, birds, reptiles and insects of Australia, expressing the hope that some public-spirited 

 men would combine to provide funds which, properly invested, would yield an income sufficient to 

 secure the issue of such handbooks by this Society. Up to the end of the financial >ear. however, 

 my hope had not been realised. The continuance of the war, with its consequential demands upon 

 the public for contributions to patriotic and charitable funds, and the recurring War Loans, had first 

 to be satisfied. Now that peace once more reigns, I venture to predict that it will not be long before 

 my hope is realised in some measure. Our Honorary Secretary, Mr. G. A. Waterhouse, who shares 

 my aspirations in this respect, has suggested that instead of waiting until the capital fund is large 

 enough to meet the cost of publishing handbooks from its income, a sum of, say, £"500, might be raised, 

 out of which the cost of producing one or two handbooks could be defrayed ; all returns from sales 

 of these books to be applied in recouping the principal sum until it is large enough to meet the expense 

 of another handbook. This, then, is our first objective — to raise £'500 — and a commencement has 

 been made, our members Sir James Burns, Mr. C. H. Hoskins and Mr. Kelso Kins having each donated 

 £To towards the Publication Fund. 



[Since the date cf the annual meeting the following additional donations have been received: — 

 Walter and Eliza Hall Trust. £50; Thomas Phillips Austin, Cobborah Estate, £10 10s., and Henry 

 Luke White, Belltrees, Scone, £10 10s.] 



