134 THE AUSTRALIAN NATURALIST. 
as Hon. President, and Mr. J. H. Maiden, as President. 
We held our meetings in the School of Arts, and at our 
Annual Meeting in 1893, had an exhibition of natural 
history specimens, which was open to the public for three 
days at St. James’ Hall. We published ‘‘Olliff’s Aus- 
tralian Butterflies,’’? ‘‘Wooll’s Plants of the County of 
Cumberland,’’ and a bulletin on collecting and preserving 
specimens. The Society, however, fell on evil days, and 
was disbanded shortly after the exhibition. 
The year 1890 was an important one to scien- 
tffic workers, and marks the time when the pioneers in 
New South Wales were dropping out and a new genera- 
tion was coming forward. Professor Stephens and 
Baron Miklouho Maclay died; the Rev. Tennison Woods 
had completed his last journey and returned from Java, 
and Sir William Macleay had given up descriptive work 
on account of ill-health. 
While some of the older men still contributed to the 
Linnean, a new band of workers had \appeared. Mr. 
Skuse, who had been monographing the Diptera of Aus- 
tralia in the Macleay Museum, had joined the staff of the 
Australian Museum. Mr. Sloane had contributed his third 
paper on the Australian Carabidae; Mr. Meyrick was pub- 
lishing his fourth paper on the Australian Moths; Mr. 
Misken was working at the Butterflies; and Mr. Maiden 
his first paper on Economic Botany. Among other con- 
tributors to the Linnean in that year were Messrs. Olliff, 
Musson, Fletcher, Etheridge, Maskell, and myself, Drs. 
Blackburn, Woolls, Prof. Haswell, and Baron von Mueller, 
_ The completion of Master’s Catalogue of the Austra- 
lian Coleoptera gave the beetle men something to go 
upon in arranging their collections, and we began to work 
out and name our collections in a systematic manner. 
This year also saw the establishment of the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, with the appointment of a scien- 
tific staff, to deal with the botany, chemistry, and insect 
and fungus diseases of plants. 
The sub-department of Forestry followed with a 
Director and an Experimental Nursery at Gosford. The 
Technological Museum formed country branches at Goul- 
burn, Maitland, Neweastle, and Bathurst. 
T have no need to say much about our existing Field 
Naturalists’ Society. It was chiefly owing to the energies 
of our late President and first Hon. Secretary (Mr. G. 
