2 J. B. CLELAND. 
ander MacCormick (for the second time) Dr. T. Fiaschi and 
Rev. A. G. Stoddart have returned from service abroad 
during my term of office, and we have great pleasure in 
welcoming them home again. 
Our membership now totals 318, and it is gratifying to 
note that there has been a slight increase during the 
year. 17 new members have joined, whilst we have lost 
10 members by resignation and 4 by death. 
The Sections of Industry and Agriculture have fully 
justified their establishment in the nature and number of 
the meetings held. Both owe much to Dr. Greig-Smith, 
who continues as Honorary Secretary of the former. 
Messrs. Wright and Breakwell have proved themselves en- 
ergetic Honorary Secretaries of the latter and have spared 
no trouble in making its meetings a success. The Geolo- 
gical Section has held meetings as usual, but owing to 
the departure for the Front of Dr. Guy Griffiths, Honor- 
ary Secretary of the Section of Public Health and Kin- 
dred Sciences, this Section did not hold its ordinary num- 
ber of meetings, though the earlier ones were important 
and well attended. 
I would like to express my warmest thanks to the Hon- 
orary Secretaries, Mr. R. H. Cambage and Mr. J. H. Mai- 
den, F.R.S., and to the Honorary Treasurer, Professor 
H. G. Chapman, for kindly assistance, advice and guidance 
on many occasions. Let me add that these gentlemen 
spare neither trouble nor time in their several capacities, 
and that the affairs of the Society could not be in better 
hands. To the members of Council I am indebted for 
courteous consideration on all occasions, and I wish to 
thank them cordially for their support and goodwill. 
Necrology. 
Wittiam Apam Dixon, whose death at the age of 
76 years occurred at North Sydney on November 6th, 1917, 
