PROCEEDINGS ^ OP THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF :n^ea\^ south avales. Wednesday, 30tli March. 1921. The Forty-sixtli Annual General Meeting, together -with the Ordinary Monthly Meeting, was held in the Linnean Hall, Ithaca Ro.-id, Elizabeth Bay, on Wednesday erening, 30th March. 1921. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. Mr. ,J. J. Fletcher, M.A., B.Sc, President, in the Chair. The Minutes of thq preceding Annual General Meeting (31st March, 1920) ■were read and confirmed. PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. During the past year there have been a number of events of more than usual interest to those who follow the trend of progi'ess in scientific affairs. The more important of these include (1) the placing of the Australian National Research Council on a permanent footing, (2) the permanent establishment of the Com-monwealth Institute of Science and Industry, (3) tlie first Pan-Pacific Scientific Conference, and (4) the renewal of the regular meetings of the Australasian Asso-ciation for the Advancement of Science. To the close observer these events have special significance, indicating as they do an increased tendency for sympathetic international co-operation in scientific affairs, and also reflecting, in Australia, the almost world-wide attempts that are being made to bring about closer and moi'e s\Tnpathetic relations between Science and Industry than have existed in the past. La.st year I drew your attention to the preliminary steps fliat had been taken towards, the formation of an Australian National Research Council to work
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