THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 219 
ANNUAL REPORT, ig12-13. 
The members of Council in presenting this first Annual 
Report of the reorganised Society, are glad to feel that in 
many ways the Society is prospering. With the incorporation 
of the Flora Society in August, 1912, and the Aquarium 
Society in February last, the membership of the Society has 
shown a satisfactory increase, 65 having been elected during 
the year. We have lost 1 through death, and g have re- 
signed, leaving the total membership at 240. 
It is with deep regret that we record the death of Mr. 
Ernest Betche, Botanical Assistant in the National Her- 
- barium, who passed away on June 28th. 
Ten Ordinary Monthly Meetings and one Special Meet- 
ing have been held during the year, at which the papers and 
lectures have been most instructive and interesting and 
highly appreciated by the members. 
The following lectures have been delivered during the 
year :— 
Mosses of the Sydney District. Rev. W. W. Watts. 
Miscellanea Entomologica. T. Steel, F.L.S. 
Preliminary Notes on Myrmecophilous Lycaenid Larvae. 
G. A. Waterhouse, B.Sc., B.E., F.L.S. 
The Making of the Coast Line of N.S. Wales. C. A. 
Sussmilch, F.G.8. ; 
A Geologist’s Expedition to Papua. J. EH. Carne, F.G.S. 
The Romance of Chemistry. J. M. Petrie, D.Sc., F.C. 
Variations in Plant Life. EH. Cheel. 
The Geographical Distribution of Butterflies. G. A. 
Waterhouse, B.Sc. ete. 
Some forms of Association amongst Plants. W. M. 
Carne. ; 
The Stone Age. T. Steel, F.L.S. 
The exhibits at the Monthly Meetings have again been 
an interesting and most attractive feature, and in severgl 
instances valuable notes have been read in connection there- 
with, and recorded in the Australian Naturalist. The ex- 
cursions have been exceedingly well attended, and have been 
a source of much pleasure and profit to members and friends. 
During the year the Council received with much regret 
the unavoidable resignations of the two*Hon. Secretaries, 
Messrs. W. G. Davies and W. B. Gurney, to whose labours 
the Society is deeply indebted. We are also much indebted 
to our President (Mr. E. 8. Edwards) for the attention which 
he has devoted to the welfare of the Society at both meetings 
and excursions. Our thanks are also due to the Hon. 
Editor (Mr. Steel) and to the Hon. Treasurer (Mr. H. E. 
Finckh). ; 
Messrs. G. A. Waterhouse and A. G. Hamilton were 
appointed to act as delegates to the Melbourne meeting of 
the Australasian Association and Messrs. Edwards and Gurney 
