C. HEDLEY. 



them grateful thanks for the care with which they have 

 conducted our business for so many years. 



Finally it is an agreeable duty to acknowledge how much 

 the President and the Society owe to their honorary officers 

 Professor Pollock, Mr. Oambage, and Professor Chapman. 

 The successful management of our affairs has been at the 

 cost of much leisure time sacrificed by these gentlemen. 



This year our Clarke Memorial Medal was awarded to 

 Professor W. A. Haswell, in appreciation of his biological 

 researches. For thirty-six years he has continuously 

 published important papers on the Australian fauna, usually 

 selecting for elucidation those groups which other writers 

 had avoided as difficult or unattractive. To such industry 

 is happily united breadth of grasp, lucidity and finish. The 

 text-book of zoology which he produced in conjunction 

 with Professor Parker, is used and valued as much in 

 Europe and America as in Australasia. But Professor 

 Haswell has given us men as well as memoirs, workers as 

 well as work; from his laboratory have come Professor 

 J. P. Hill of London, Professor Goddard of Cape Town, 

 Professor Flynn of Hobart, Dr. Harvey Johnston of Bris- 

 bane, Dr. Stephen Johnston and others. 



We have the pleasure of congratulating Professor David 

 on yet another honour, another upward step in his dis- 

 tinguished career. This session, the Geological Society of 

 London awarded to him the Wollaston medal, the highest 

 honour it has to bestow. The list of the medallists begins 

 in 1831 with William Smith the "Father" of Geology, con- 

 tinues with such famous names as Agassiz, Owen, Darwin, 

 Lyell, Dana, Huxley, Geikie, Suess, Woodward, and now 

 terminates with that of Professor T. W. E. David. 



It is perhaps hardly a coincidence that this award was 

 immediately preceded by the publication of a magnificent 

 volume by Professor David and Mr. Priestly on the "Geology 



