ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 5 
With regard to the conversazione held at the University on 
December 5th last, we may congratulate ourselves on having 
achieved a success. At no previous time were the exhibits more , 
numerous or interesting, though the removal of many of them . 
from the Great Hall of the University to the Laboratories, natur- 
ally rendered the exhibition so large that few people could have 
seen everything. Amongst a number of most excellent exhibits 
perhaps Mr. Russell’s magnificent stellar photographs, exhibited 
by means of a magic lantern, were the most striking. About six 
hundred visitors and members were present, and the cost was 
only £70 
Library.—It was stated above that the cost of the library 
might be put at about £200, excluding superintendence. The 
actual outlay was £173 9s. 10d. We exchanged our journal with 
three hundred and ninety-five kindred societies, receiving in 
return one hundred and ninety-six volumes, one thousand and 
fifty-eight parts, fifty-nine reports, one hundred and fifty-two 
pamphlets, one atlas of geological charts, fourteen hydrographic 
charts, and fifty-four meteorological diagrams, a total of one 
thousand five hundred and thirty-four publications. The “Institut 
de Carthage” of Tunis has been added to the exchange list. 
Clarke Medal.—At the meeting of the Council on the 31st 
October last, it was resolved that the Clarke Memorial Medal 
for 1895 be awarded to each of the following gentlemen :—Mr. 
Robert Logan Jack, F.G.8., F.R.G.S., Government Geologist, 
Queensland, and Mr. Robert Etheridge, Junr., Government 
Palxontologist, Department of Mines, Sydney. 
Hon. Member.—At the General Monthly Meeting of the 
Society held 3rd October last, on the recommendation of the 
Council, W. Baldwin Spencer, m.a., Professor of Biology, Univer- 
sity of Melbourne, was unanimously elected an Honorary 
Member of the Society. 
Original Researches.—In continuation of the practice originated 
in 1881 to publish yearly a list of subjects peculiar to Australia, 
