20 



ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 



1888. 

 Sydney 



1890. 

 Melbourne . . . 



1891. 

 Christchurch 



N.S.W. 



Vict. 



S.A. 



W.A.. 



Q'laud. 



N. Terr. 



Tasm. 



N. Z. 



Fiji. 





560 



130 



59 



3 



46 



1 



18 



50 



— 





323 



580 



73 



2 



33 



— 



30 



37 



1 



# 



243 



185 



57 



— 



26 



— 



22 



235 



2 



t 



Total. 



857 

 1080 



776 



1 From Canada. 



t G From England. 



Addresses were delivered on the opening day by the Governor 

 of New Zealand, the Earl of Onslow, and by the President Sir 

 James Hector. A large number of papers were read at the 

 sectional meetings, the publication of which is looked forward to 

 with great interest. The meetings lasted seven days. Excursions 

 in the neighbourhood of Christchurch and for longer distances to 

 places of interest were undertaken, the Committee appointed for 

 the purpose having made the most complete arrangements to 

 ensure the thorough success of the meeting and the enjoyment of 

 the visitors. The reports of these annual meetings, of which two 

 have now been published, form a valuable addition to the records 

 of scientific work carried out in the Australasian Colonies, and 

 entitles the association to the general support of all lovers of 

 science, though only a comparatively small proportion of its 

 members may be able to attend the meetings, except those who 

 are living near. 



The place of meeting for 1892 is fixed for Hobart, under the 

 Presidency of the Governor of Tasmania, Sir R. Hamilton, k.c.m.g., 

 who is also President of the Royal Society of Tasmania. From 

 its central position and other advantages no doubt a large attend- 

 ance may be anticipated. 



Biological Station. — -Ten years ago the late Professor Smith in 

 his Presidential Address to this Society, made an energetic appeal 

 for contributions towards the cost of establishing a Biological 

 Laboratory at Watson's Bay, where the Government had given 

 an eligible site, and also had promised to double the private sub- 

 scriptions up to £300. The well known Russian naturalist, the 

 late Baron Maclay, had for two or three years previously been 

 endeavouring to establish a Zoological Station, and in a paper read 



