MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES.” 483 
Theamount nowstandingtothecredit of this fundin the bankis £189 
13 11d. During the year the Society has held 10 meetings, including 
twoadjourned meetings, at which12 papers were read, andthemedical 
and microscopical sections have held regular monthly meetings. At 
the council meeting held 13th December, 1881, it was unanimously 
resolved to award the Clarke Medal for the year 1883 to Baron Fer- 
dinand von Mueller, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., &c., Government Botanist, 
Melbourne. At the same meeting the council awarded the prize ot 
£25 which had been offered for the best communication on the 
‘ Influence of Australian Climates and Pastures upon the Growth 
of Wool,’ to Dr. Ross, M.L.A., Molong; and the prize for the one 
upon ‘ The Aborigines of New South Wales’ to Mr. John Fraser, 
B.A., West Maitland.” . 
The President announced that M. Pasteur had been elected an 
honorary member of the Society, vice the late Dr. Charles Darwin. 
The President then delivered his annual address, dealing with 
the life and labours of the late Dr. Darwin, and drawing especial 
attention to his Australian experiences.* 
The election of officers and council for the ensuing year resulted 
as follows :—President, Hon. J. Smith, C.M.G., M.D., M.L.C. ; 
vice-presidents, Mr. Charles Moore, F.L.S., Mr. W. A. Dixson, 
Pee enon, treasurer, Dr. FL Gs A,’ Wright, M.R.C.S.E.; hon, 
Sectctaties, Professor Liversidge, F.R.S.,\ Dr.” Leibius, Ph.D, 
F.C.S.; members of council, Mr. Robert Hunt, F.G.S., Dr. W. 
Morris, Mr. F. Poolman, Mr. Christopher Rolleston, C.M.G., Mr. 
Peeorrussell, BA. PARAS. Mr..P. R. Pedley. 
MICROSCOPICAL SECTION. 
Sydney, May 14th.—Mr. G. D. Hirst, in the chair. 
The following were the chief exhibits :— 
(1.) Polyzoa, presented to the Society by the Rev. Jas. Jefferis : 
the animals had been mounted with their tentacles fully expanded. 
Mr. Pedley observed that the addition of a few drops of water 
holding carbonic acid gas, such as sodawater, had an immediate 
stupifying effect on the most active forms ot aquatic life, thereby 
enabling observers to study and delineate them ina state of rest, 
whilst on the addition of fresh water they would immediately re- 
vive and resume their wonted state of activity. 
(2.) Bacteria, by Dr. Wright, including Bacillus anthracis, a 
portion of the lung of an animal that died from splenic tever ; also 
a slide of the blood of a man suffering from woolsorters’ disease ; 
a slide of typhoid bacilli, present in a section of the mesenteric gland 
of a person that died of typhoid fever; a slide of tubercle bacillus 
stained by Dr. H. Gibbe’s method, and derived by the sputum of a 
person in the last stage of consumption. 
(3.) Leptothvix buccalis, a bacterium that is found generally pre- 
sent in decayed tooth structure, although it is an open question as 
to whether this bacterium is the source of tooth decay. By Mr. 
Pedley, 
(4.) Bacteria, by Dr. Mackellar, 
(5.) Rotiferze, Vorticellide, etc. (living specimens), by Messrs. 
Kyngdon and Whitelegge. 
* The address is printed in full in the columns of the Sydney Morning Herald 
! of May Sth , hen 
