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Council's Report 



Our membership now totals 348. Fifty-two new members 

 have joined, while we have lost five members by resigna- 

 tion and six by death. 



Dr. J. B. Oleland,a Vice-President, has withdrawn from 

 the Council having been appointed to the Ohair of Pathology 

 at the Adelaide University. 



The Council has awarded the Clarke Memorial Medal to 

 Joseph Edmund Oarne, F.G.S., late Government Geologist 

 of New South Wales. 



It is gratifying to know that two of our members have 

 been honoured during the past year: — Professor T. W. E. 

 David, in addition to previous honours, having been men- 

 tioned in Despatches by Sir Douglas Haig after the close 

 of the war, and Professor S. H. Barraclough having received 

 the Knight Commandership of the British Empire. 



Early in the year a communication was received from 

 the Secretary, Royal Society, London, intimating that 

 Australia had been invited to join the International 

 Research Council, and asking the Royal Society of New 

 South Wales to take the necessary steps towards initiating 

 the formation of some organization in Australia which could 

 act as a National Research Council, for the promotion of 

 scientific and industrial research in its various branches, 

 including those of national defence. 



Invitations were therefore issued to various scientific 

 bodies to send representatives to discuss the matter, and 

 as a result a Council was formed. 



AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL. 



Resolutions passed at the Conference held at the Royal Society's 

 House, Sydney, on 21st August, 1919, for the purpose of form- 

 ing an Australian National Research Council. 

 prksent: — 

 Professor C. E. Fawsitt (Chairman) and Professor H. G. Chapman 

 delegates from Royal Saciety of New South Wales. 



