The Proceedings Of The Linnean Society Of New South Wales Vol 88

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Download or read book The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Vol. 69 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Vol. 69: For the Year 1944, With Ten Plates, 166 d104-Figures and 1 Map In presenting this Report of work begun in the fourth year of the Second World War, I know that members will fully appreciate the manner in which the Society's activities, due largely to the researches of our Macleay Bacteriologist and highly qualified Fellows, have become adjusted to the needs and restrictions of war-time. The resumption of evening meetings, resulting from relaxation of the "black-out" regulations, while reflecting a reassuring general improvement in the immediate war situation, did not result in any noticeable improvement in attendances, although the Council provided interesting addresses when papers were not available. It is, of course, well understood that present conditions inevitably affect the conduct of scientific work, as well as the freedom of members wishing to attend the meetings. It is, however, to be hoped that the coming year may show a marked improvement in attendances, to which end I would suggest that where possible papers be presented in the form of a summary of the research problem, results achieved, and prospects for further research, rather than relying almost entirely on diagrammatic illustration. The presentation of exhibits by members, in which there has been a notable decline, would add a very desirable personal touch to the general interest of the meetings. Careful supervision has been exercised over the Society's funds and the expenditure in the General Account has been kept within the normal income for the year. The deficit shown in the income of the General Account results from interest overdue in respect of two mortgages, but there is no reason to think that these arrears of interest will not be received. There will be continued necessity for the exercising of strict economy by the Council, as we may expect that there will be a successive loss of income in the near future at each conversion of Commonwealth and other loans in view of the Governmental policy of keeping interest rates down. The concluding part of Volume lxviii of the Society's Proceedings was issued in December. The complete volume(254 +xxiv pages, twelve plates, and 110 text figures) contains twenty-two papers on various branches of Natural History and, in addition, a memorial account of Herbert James Carter. As in the preceding year, so many members were either occupied with special war work or actually in the fighting services, that the number of papers submitted for publication showed a very marked decline and, in consequence, the volume was much smaller than in previous years. Exchanges from scientific societies and institutions for the session amounted to 878 compared with 1, 383, 1, 200 and 749 for the three preceding years. During the year the Society has co-operated with the Allied Geographical Section, South-west Pacific Area, in the preparation of an annotated bibliography of all published material in Australia dealing with the South-west Pacific. Since the last Annual Meeting the names of eight new members have been added to the list and three members have resigned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.