ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS, 
By H. C. Russett, B.A., F.R.A.S., &c., President. 
[Delivered to the Royal Society of N.S.W., 6 May, 1885.] 
GENTLEMEN, — 
The Report of the Council places you in possession of 
all the particulars of the general progress and work of the 
Society during the past year, and there is but little that I have 
to add to what has been there said. During the year the 
following papers were read :—1884, May 7—President’s Address, 
by the Hon. Prof. Smith, C.M.G., M.D., LL.D. June 4—“ On 
the Removal of Bars from the entrances to our Rivers,” by 
Walter Shellshear, Assoc. Mem. Inst. O.E. July 2—“ Notes on 
Gold,” by Dr. Leibius, M.A., F.C.S. ; “Some Minerals new to 
New South Wales,” by Professor Liversidge, F.R.S. ; “On the 
Oven-mounds of Aborigines in Victoria,” by Rev. Peter Macpher- 
son, M.A. August 6—‘ Notes on the Trochoided Plane,” by 
Lawrence Hargrave. September 3—‘‘A new Form of Actino- 
meter, by H. C. Russell, B.A., F.R.A.S. November 5—“ Notes 
on some Mineral Localities in the Northern Districts of New 
South Wales,” by D. A. Porter. December 3—‘“ Notes on 
Doryanthus,” by Charles Moore, F.L.S. ; “ Water Supply in the 
Interior of New South Wales,” by W. E. Abbott; ‘ Notes on 
a new Self-registering Anemometer,” by H. C. Russell, B.A., 
F.R.A.S. December 17—“Embryology of the Marsupialia, 
Monotremata and Ceratodus,” by W. H. Caldwell, M.A. 
The Council regret that they have to record the loss by death of 
two honorary and seven ordinary members. The honorary members 
are—Sir F. P. Barlee, K.C.M.G., elected 1875 ; George Bentham, 
C.M.G., F.R.S., elected 1879. Ordinary members—Hon. John 
Frazer, M.L.C., elected 1875; V. W. Giblin, elected 1878, Dr. 
