■QUEENSLAND 
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
ANNUAL MEETING HELD ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1863. 
(From the Queensland Guardian , December 13, 1864.) 
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The above society held its annual meeting on 
the 12th December, in the Municipal Chambers, 
Chief Justice Cockle, president of the society, 
in the chair. There was a good meeting of 
members present. The minutes of the previous 
meeting were read and adopted, and other 
business transacted. Dr. Waugh enrolled his 
name as a member of the society, and thereafter 
declared by the president to be a member o^ 
the society. Mr. Armand Ranniger, Kangaroo 
Point, was proposed as a member. 
The Secretary said, when on a visit to 
Sydney, he attended the Philosophical Society of 
Sydney, and had proposed that papers should 
be exchanged ; but, whilst they approved, yet 
they could not exchange, owing to their papers 
not having been printed. He suggested that 
the society should decide what should be done 
in the way of purchasing books and specimens 
when they came under notice, between meet- 
ings. 
A small committee was formed for the 
purpose of drawing up a list of books, necessary 
to enable the society to carry out its objects, 
in order that a sum of money might be laid out 
in this way. 
Mr. Rawnsley is expected to read a paper 
on the “ Bower Bird,” at an early meeting of 
the society. 
The Secretary read the following interest- 
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REPORT. 
“ According to the 17th bye-law, the council 
is called upon to report to this meeting the 
present condition of the society, and the pro- 
gress which it has made during the past year, 
and in doing so it appears there is ground for 
congratulation in three respects. First, re- 
garding the financial position of the society. 
Second, regarding the increased number of 
members. Third, regarding the progress made 
in the real work of the institution. 
“1. With regard to the finances, the Trea- 
surer’s balance sheet will speak for itself, show- 
ing that the council have exercised the greatest 
economy with the funds entrusted to them, 
and that there is, at the present time, a 
balance of £ still remaining in the Trea- 
surer’s hands. 
“ 2. With regard to the increase in the num- 
ber of members, the council have to report that, 
during the year, the members have nearly 
doubled, which of itself affords proof that the 
society lias not been behind that general pro- 
gress which has marked- our colonial history 
during the year which is now on the point of 
closing. The council is nevertheless called 
upon to refer to the removal by death, of one 
of the older and most active of our members, 
viz., Mr. T. S. Warry, whose loss will be 
deeply felt by them, as well as the many other 
societies with which he was connected. 
“3. With regard to the general work of the 
society the council have an equally favorable 
