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COUNCIL S REPORT. 



8. That the election of the new Australian National Research 

 Council be entrusted to the Council of the Australasian Associ- 

 ation for the Advancement of Science at its meeting in January 

 1921. 



9. That at least ten of the retiring members of the. Council 

 shall not be eligible for re-election, but that this provision shall 

 not operate at the election of the first Australian National 

 Research Council in January, 1921. 



10. That a provisional Executive Committee consisting of a 

 Chairman, the Honorary Secretary, and three other members be 

 appointed to act at once in all matters considered urgent, and 

 that the members of such Executive Committee be: — Professor 

 David, (Chairman), Mr. R. H. Cambage. (Hon. Secretary), 

 Professor Chapman, Mr. J. H. Maiden, and Professor Pollock. 



11. That it be recommended to this provisional Executive 

 Committee that the Commonwealth Government be requested to 

 make the financial provisions necessary for carrying on the work 

 of the Australian National Research Council, and that for this 

 purpose representations be made to the Prime Minister. 



12. In the event of any of the members of the provisional 

 Council or the Executive Committee, declining to accept office, 

 that the Executive be empowered to fill the vacancies. 



Obituary. 

 Robert Etheridge was one of the oldest members of 

 this Society, having joined in 1879. He was the only child 

 of a most distinguished geologist, Robert Etheridge, Senior, 

 f.r.s., and was born at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and 

 died at Colo Vale, on January 4th, 1920. In the middle 

 sixties he was engaged with others on the first geological 

 survey of Victoria. Returning to Europe lie accepted the 

 responsible position of palaeontologist to the Geological 

 Survey of Scotland, publishing much valuable work while 

 in that capacity* Fresh and wider fields for research were 

 opened to him by his removal to London, consequent on 



