2 R. THRELFALL. 
Murnin, M. E., elected 1865. 
Nowlan, John, elected 1878. 
Quodling, W. H., elected 1876. 
Hon. President : 
His Excellency Sir R. W. Duff, p.c., c.c.me. 
Sir Rosert Wi.iiam Durr accepted the office of Honorary 
President of our Society soon after his arrivalin the Colony. His 
official duties prevented him from taking an active share in the 
_ conduct of our affairs; we can only add our share to the tribute 
of sympathy and regret which came from the whole Colony at 
the death of a kindly gentleman. 
The financial position of the Society may be regarded on the 
whole as satisfactory. Our total receipts during the year ending 
March 31st, 1895, were £1,234 10s., and we commenced with a 
balance of £63 12s. 3d., making in all £1,298 2s. 3d., of this we 
- spent £1,140 17s. 4d.; we have transferred £106 14s. to the 
building fund, and carried forward £50 10s. 11d. to next year. 
Of the amounts expended we have only been able to devote about 
£100 to the purchase of books and periodicals, though the general 
library expenses, including binding, may be put at about £200. 
The publication of our Journal has cost us a little over £300; 
and we may look forward to this source of expense increasing as 
time goes on and the influence of the University extends. ‘Those 
whose business it is to consult the proceedings of learned societies 
must have noticed the enormous rate at which the bulk of these 
works increases year by year, and our own journal has swollen 
with the rest. It willwsoon ‘become a matter for consideration a8 
to whether we are to go on increasing our expenditure in this 
direction, or limit it by publishing papers of exceptional interest 
only. No great saving can be made in the preparation of plates 
and engravings, for we have always employed cheap processes | 
reproduction ; financial stress appears to have driven the Royal — 
Society of London to reproduce plates in a manner similar to that 
which we adopt, but this must always be aisource of regret to 
