ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 
By the Hon. Professor Smitu, C.M.G., M.L.C., &c., President. 
[Delivered to the Royal Society of N.S.W., 7 May, 1884.] 
GENTLEMEN, 
In taking up once more the meetings of the Society, we 
have the satisfaction of looking back upon a fair amount of work 
and progress during the past year. Nine meetings were held 
in 1883, with an average attendance of about forty members. 
Thirteen papers were read, their titles and authors being as 
follows :—May 2, 1883, “‘ President’s A.ddress,” by Chr. Rolleston, 
C.M.G. June 6, “On the Aborigines inhabiting the great 
Lacustrine and Riverine Depression of the Lower Murray, Lower 
Murrumbidgee, Lower Lachlan, and Lower Darling,” by Peter 
Beveridge. July 4, “On the Wianamatta Shales,” by the Rev. 
J. E. Tenison-Woods, F.G.S., F.LS.: “Further Remarks on 
Australian Strophalosie, and Description of a New Species of 
Aucella from the Cretaceous Rocks of North-east Australia,” 
by Robert Etheridge, junr., F.G.8., &c. August 1, “On Plants 
used by the Natives of North Queensland, Flinders and Mitchell 
Rivers, for Food, Medicine, &c.,” by Edward Palmer, M.L.A., 
Queensland. September 5, “ Notes on the Genus Macrozamia, 
with Descriptions of some New Species,” by Chas. Moore, F.LS., 
V.P.: “A List of Double Stars,” by H. C. Russell, B.A., 
F.R.A.8.: “Some Facts connected with Irrigation,” by H. C. 
Russell, B.A., F.R.A.S.: “On the Discolouration of White 
Bricks made from certain Clays in the Neighbourhood of Sydney,” 
by E. H. Rennie, M.A., D.Sc. October 3, ‘On the Roots of the 
Sugar-cane,” by Henry Ling Roth. November 7, ‘On Irrigation 
in Upper India,” by H. G. M‘Kinney, M.E.: “On Tanks and 
Wells of New South Wales Water-supply and Irrigation,” by A. 
Pepys Wood. December 5, “Additions to the Census of the 
Genera of Plants hitherto known as Indigenous to Australia,” by 
Baron Ferd. von Miieller, K.0.M.G., M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., é&e. 
