Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, Vol. 9

Gentlemen of the Royal Society of Victoria,

For the third time it devolves upon me, as your President, to deliver the Annual Address, on this occasion inaugurating our thirteenth session.

The honour you have thus conferred upon me was, I confess, an unexpected one, I beg however to assure you most earnestly, that I am fully sensible of the distinction implied in your trust, and no less of the responsibility which it entails.

On similar occasions it has been our custom to review the Society's operations during the previous session, touching also on the scientific progress of our public scientific institutions during the past year.

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