| Cee a ADDRESS. 
| . H. Marpey, F.L.s., 
Government ee and Director of the Botanic Gardens, 
Sydney. 
(Delivered to the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, May 5, 1897.) 
In delivering before you the Presidential Address, on the Seventy- 
sixth Anniversary of our Society, I propose to arrange what I 
have to say under three heads, and I set out these heads, and 
_ their sub-heads, in the following manner :— 
| Part I. History or THE SOCIETY DURING THE PAST YEAR :— 
1. Roll of Members 
ne, 2. Obituary .. 
3. Papers rea aa during 1896 
4. amines Meetings 
5. Recept 
6. ~le ‘Position 
7. Society’s Premises... si sd ins we 
8. Libra Ng, Maeno ae tie oa Me ae “a 
_ 9. Exchanges ye aes ies 
Pa Original Resarthios ain 
a IL. Progress or Scrence IN iw Boon Oita: DURING 
THE PAST YEA 
z Physiology i 
2. Zoology, including some vefercie to the Funafuti 
eee, 
Expeditio. en ec oe 
8. Geology ee ee oe 
4, Ganistey. and Motatlurgy ees iy see sh a 
5. Astronomy and Meteorology .. eG ee 
Rios Se es 
7 Engineering and Pile ts ae 
. Public H a 
Part III, Some Sa Marrens i 
al. oaaaen Workers— 
The late prea von Mueller ae ee - 
; a > Other Wor vee oor vee eee aoe 
a 2. Agriculture— 
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a. Green Manuring &e. ... ve Ah 
b. Some work of the Department of Agricutnre ws 46 
¢. Mr. W. Farrer’s work with Wheats ... OR. . 
d. a of Seeds ee ea a 
| Anatey 5 1897, coe 
