16 ANNIVERSARY ADDRE88. 



to the Building Fund, from its inauguration on the 11th Sept. 

 1877 to the 31st Dec, 1886, was £1,904 12s. On the 24th Nov., 

 1886 the Council unanimously agreed that Mr. E. R. Fairfax be 

 made a Life Member of the Society, in recognition of his very 

 generous and opportune gift. 



During the past year the Society has received 1192 volumes 

 and pamphlets, 16 charts and 6 portfolios of Geological Maps as 

 donations. The Society has presented its Journal and Proceedings 

 Vol. XIX., for 1885 to 337 kindred Institutions, as per printed 

 list, and this publication has likewise been distributed to all the 

 members entitled to it. Vol. XX., is in type and will soon be ready 

 for distribution. Since last year the following new Societies have 

 entered into an exchange of publications viz. : — The Queensland 

 Branch of the Geographical Society of Australasia, Brisbane ; The 

 Academy of Sciences, Christiania ; The Meteorological Institute 

 of Roumania, Bucharest ; The Royal Meteorological Institute, 

 Berlin • The California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco ; 

 The Imperial University of Japan, Tokio. The Society has 

 subscribed to 49 Scientific Journals and Periodicals, and has 

 purchased 153 vols, at a cost of £147 Is. 3d. 



During the past session the Society held seven meetings, at 

 which the following papers were read : — 1886, May 5 — Presidential 

 Address, by Prof. Liversidge, F.R.S., &c. June 2 — "On an 

 unrecorded Ardisia from New Guinea," by Baron Ferd. von 

 Mueller, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., &c. ; " A comparison of the Dialects 

 of E. and W. Polynesian, Malay, Malagasy and Australian," by 

 Rev. George Pratt, communicated by the Rev. W. Wyatt Gill, 

 B.A. (Lond.) ; "Preliminary notes on some new Poisonous Plants 

 discovered on the Johnstone River, N. Queensland," by T. L. 

 Bancroft, M.B., F.L.S., communicated by Prof. T. P. Anderson 

 Stuart, M.D. July 7 — " Further additions to the Census of the 

 Genera of Plants hitherto known as Indigenous to Australia," by 

 Baron F. von Mueller, K.C.M.G., F.R.S. &c. ; "Notes on the 

 process of polishing and figuring 18 inch Glass Specula by hand, 

 and Experiments with Flat Surfaces," by H. F. Madsen. August 





