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teacher. ‘“ Dr. Gill can claim,” writes Mr. Horne, elsewhere, ‘‘to 
have taken out to the Pacific the first complete Bible issued by 
the Bible Society. He himself was responsible for a revised. 
reference Bible for Rarotonga.” Dr. Gill’s “ Myths and Songs 
from the South Pacific ” has especially had a very wide circulation. 
I have also to chronicle the death of another old member, 
Herr Cart Lupwieg Sanz, German Consul for New South Wales, 
who died in March last. Herr Sahl was an old resident of Sydney, 
having arrived here twenty-five years ago. He left Germany at 
the age of thirteen, and was for some years a resident of Fiji, 
where he owned considerable property, and he acquired an interest 
in some plantations on the islands. He was senior partner in the 
firm of Rabone, Feez, & Oo., general merchants, having risen from 
the position of clerk in the firm’s employ. He was one of the 
oldest members of the German Club, Phillip-street, and last year 
was elected president. Twelve months ago he was decorated by 
the German Government with the order of the Red Eagle, a 
decoration awarded for distinction in the Civil Service. Herr 
‘Sahl was well known and highly esteemed by his countrymen in 
Sydney and by a wide circle of English acquaintances as a 
cultured and courteous gentleman. 
3. PAPERS READ IN 1896.—During the past year the Society . 
held eight meetings at which the average attendance of members 
was thirty-six, and of visitors 4:5. The following papers were read : 
1, President’s Address, by Prof. T. W. Edgeworth David, B.4., 
F.G.S. 
2. On periodicity of good and bad seasons, by H. C. Russell, B.A., 
C.M.G., F.R.8. : 
3. The ‘Mika’ or ‘Kulpi’ operation of the Australian Aboriginals 
by Prof. T. P. Anderson Stuart, M.D. 
Note on the absorption of water by the gluten of different 
wheats, by F. B. Gathrie, F F.C.S. 
On Aromadendrin or A ic acid from the turbid group 
of eucalyptus kinos, by H. G. Smith, F.c.s. 
- On the cellular kite, by Lawrence Hargrave. 
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