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New Members — Dr. W. H. Coutie, Petersham ; Dr. A. Jarvie 

 Hood, Sydney ; Rev. W. Jordan, Cooma ; Mr. D. C. Selman, Sydney ; 

 and Mr. J. M. Smail, Sydney. 



The New Council. — The following members were elected to fill 

 positions on the new council: — President: Mr. H. C. Russell, B. A., 

 O.M.G., F.R.S. Vice-Presidents : Professor Liversidge, M.A., F.R.S., 

 Mr. W. A. Dixon, F.C.S., F.I.C., Dr. A. Leibius, Ph. D., M.A., F.C.S., 

 and Mr. H. G. A. Wright, M.K.C.S.E. Hon. Treasurer : Mr. E. Hunt, 

 C.M.G., F.G.S. Hon. Secretaries : Messrs. F. B. Kyngdon, and Prof. 

 Warren, M. Inst. GE. Members of Council : Messrs. Robt. Etheridge, 

 junr., G Moore, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Professor Anderson Stuart, M.D., C. S. 

 Wilkinson, F.G.S., F.L.S., W. M. Hamlet, F.C.S., F.I.G, T. W Edge- 

 worth David, B.A., F.G.S., J. A. McDonald, M. Inst. C.E., &c., J. H. 

 Maiden, F.L.S., F.C.S., Alexander McCormick, M.D., and C. W. 

 Darley, M. Inst. C.E. 



Sectional Committees.— The President announced the election of 

 the sectional committees for the session 1891. They were appointed 

 for the three following sections : Microscopical, Medical, and Civil 

 Engineering. 



Correspondence. — A letter was received from Professor F. W. 

 Hutton, F.G.S., of Canterbury College, Christchurch, New Zealand, 

 acknowledging the award of the Clarke Memorial. 



Anniversary Address. — The President, Dr. Leibius, then delivered 

 the annual address, from which we make the following extracts : — 



" Antarctic Exploration — As you are aware Professor Liversidge 

 referred somewhat largely to this subject in his Presidential Address 

 last year, from which it appears that a Committee of the British 

 Association was formed in 1885, which presented three reports, while 

 Baron von Miiller of Melbourne, as early as 1886 strongly advocated 

 an Antarctic Expedition. Nothing however, came of it ; the request 

 of the Agent General of Victoria made in 1887 to the Imperial 

 Government for a subsidy of £5,000 towards the cost of such an 

 Antarctic Expedition under the condition of Victoria giving a similar 

 sum having been declined on two grounds, viz., that as regards the 

 two objects then put forward in support of such an expedition, i.e., 

 promotion of trade and scientific enquiry, the first did not justify 

 imperial contribution, and as to the second, that the proposed outlay of 

 £10,000 on such an expedition could do but very little in the way of 

 scientific investigation. At a meeting of the Australian Antarctic 

 Exploration Committee held at Melbourne on the 4th of March, 1890, 

 the munificent offer of Baron Oscar Dickson of Gothenburg, Sweden, to 

 fit out and start a Swedish-Austx*alian Expedition under the leadership 

 of the celebrated Baron Nordenskjold, to explore the Antarctic regions, 

 provided Australia contributed half the estimated cost, viz., £5,000, 

 while Baron Dickson offered to pay the other half, was brought before 

 the members by the Consul for Sweden at Melbourne, Mr. Gundersen. 

 This offer was enthusiastically received by the meeting, and the 

 Victorian Branch of the Royar Geographical Society of Australasia 

 in conjunction with the Royal Society of Victoria, at once set to work 

 to enlist the hearty co-operation of the different branches of the Royal 



