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the use of the antitoxic serum for the cure of diphtheria, amounts 
to about two hundred per annum. In the days of ancient Rome 
one of the highest rewards a citizen could win was the crown with 
its glorious motto “ Ob civem, servatum.” Of all the citizens who 
have deserved such a crown there surely have been none better 
deserving than Pasteur. 
Of our ordinary members who died last year Mr. A. S. OLLIFF 
was well known to many of us, and his death at the early age of 
thirty, has removed from our band of Australian scientific workers 
@ young entomologist of much promise. He first came to Aus- 
tralia in 1885 to fill the appointment of Assistant Zoologist, in 
the Branch of Entomology at the Australian Museum. In 1890 
he received the appointment of Entomologlst to the Department 
of Agriculture in New South Wales. He died on December 29th. 
His scientific papers relating chiefly to the Lepidoptera and 
Coleoptera were published for the most part in the Proceedings 
of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 
Dr. P. H. MacGittivray of Victoria, while practising his pro- 
fession found leisure to do a large amount of useful work on the 
Australian Polyzoa. Most of his work on the Polyzoa is to be 
found in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Victoria, in the 
Decades of Sir Frederick McCoy, and in his own ‘ Monograph on 
the tertiary Polyzoa of Victoria.” 
Papers read in 1895.—During the past year the Society held 
eight meetings, at which the average attendance of members was 
thirty-eight, and of visitors 3-5, the following twenty-six papers 
were read :— 
1. ‘ President’s Address,” by R. THRELFALL, M.A., Professor of 
Physics in the University of Sydney. 
‘A contribution to the Chemistry of Australian Myrtaceous 
Kinos,” by J. H. Marpen, F.t.s., and H. G.: Smita 
‘“* Paper on Aeronautical Work,” by Lawrence HarGRAVE. 
‘“* Notes on two New Mineral Substances from the Australian 
Broken Hill Consols Mine,” by E. F. Prrrman, .R.8.M., 
Government Geologist, Sydney. 
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