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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 
The Society’s credit balance, which stood at £32 11s. gd. 
at the beginning of the year, has been reduced to £3 gs. 3d. In 
October a Government subsidy of /'22,10s. 3d. was received, but 
this was more than counterbalanced by the quite unavoidable 
heavy expenditure. It is clear that the work of the Society 
will be seriously hampered unless more funds become available. 
In this connection the Council is pleased to be able to state that 
personal representations to the Premier, on the necessity for 
increased financial aid, have been received in a manner which 
makes it probable that a formal appeal, about to be made to the 
Treasury, will not go unanswered. 
The number of members on the register is 118, of whom 107 
are ordinary members, 4 junior members, and 7 honorary members. 
The number of those who have paid subscriptions for the year 
under review is 48. The Society has lost a prominent member 
by the death of Mr. J. B. Allen, whose educational work in mathe- 
matics and physics is well known. Six members retired in the 
course of the year, and 21 were elected. 
In June, 1911, the Society received notice to cjuit the pre- 
mises in the Agricultural Department, which had been occupied, 
rent free, for some time previously. After a considerable search 
for new quarters it w as arranged to share the large room of the 
Theosophical Society, at the top of the " West Australian 
Chambers, at a rental which was first fixed at 10s. a week and 
afterwards reduced to 30s. a month. The transfer of the Society's 
property took place on 31st July, 1911. 
The Council has met 21 times during the year. From time 
to time it has been necessary to fill vacant places by the election 
of new members, one of whom, Mr. J. J. East, was chosen to be 
treasurer on the resignation of Mr. W. Catton Grasby. Of the 
ten members originally elected, only five remain. 
Twelve General Meetings, besides the Annual Meeting, 
have been held, and at these the following papers were read : — 
“ The Permo-Carboniferous Glacial Beds of Western Australia,” 
being the presidential address ol Mr. A. Gibb Maitland for the 
year 1910-11 ; “The Pederal Capital Site,” by Mr. J. G. Hay; 
“ A Description of some Artificial and Reconstructed Gems,” by 
Mr. I. H. Boas; “ Unusual Types of Petrification from Dan- 
darragan,” by -Mr. E. S. Simpson ; “ The Causes of the Fertility 
of the Semi-arid Wheat Lands of \\ estern Australia,” by Mr. G. A. 
Pfister ; “ A Triumph of Mendelism in Wheat Breeding,” by Mr. 
W. Catton Grasby ; “ The Proto/.oic Rocks of the North of 
Western Australia,” by Mr. L. Glauert ; “ Certain of the Pro- 
perties and Functions of the Skin of the Potato Tuber,” by Dr. 
F. Stoward ; and, lastly, the presidential address of Mr. E. S. 
