ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 
By Pror. W. H. WARREN, M. Inst. C.E., Wh. Sc., M. Am. Soc. C.E. 
[ Delivered before the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, May 3, 1893. | 
In appearing before you as President of the Royal Society of 
New South Wales, on the Seventy-second Anniversary of its 
existence, it becomes my duty, following the custom established 
by my predecessors, to address you in the first place on the various 
matters more closely associated with the work of our Society ; I 
propose afterwards to review briefly the progress of scientific 
research and discovery in New South Wales, and also the various 
engineering works which have been executed in connection with 
our Public Works during the period I have had the honour to 
occupy the President’s Chair. 
Notwithstanding the unparalleled depression which has affected 
more or less every interest in the Colony, it is gratifying to be 
able to state that the financial position of the Society is most 
satisfactory. The total receipts for the past year were £1256 9s. 4d.; 
and the expenditure £1150 lls. 1ld.; the amount transferred to 
the building and investment fund was £84 16s., leaving a balance 
of £59 13s. up to the 3lst of March. The Building and Invest- 
ment Fund now amounts to £892 16s. ld. and the “Clarke 
Memorial Fund to £330 16s. 8d., which amounts are invested as. 
fixed deposits in the Union Bank. 
The number of members on the roll on the 30th of April, 1892 
was four hundred and seventy-eight ; thirty-three new members 
were elected during the past year. The Society has lost one 
honorary member, and six ordinary members through death ; 
fourteen from resignation, nine from non-payment of subscription, 
five from failure to take up their membership as per Rule [Xa., 
so that the total number on the roll up to the end of April 1893 
A—May 3, 1893. 
