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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29th, 1899. 



The Twenty-fifty Annual General Meeting of the Society was 

 held in the Linnean Hall, Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on Wed- 

 nesday evening, March 29th, 1899. 



Professor J. T. Wilson, M.B., Ch.M., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting were 

 read and confirmed. 



The President delivered the Annual Address. 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



It is gratifying to be able to report that the past Session has 

 been characterised by satisfactory activity and progress in the 

 Society's customary field of work, and by important develop- 

 ments in its founder's plans for an extended sphere of action in 

 the future. Though not a matter which has affected the scientific 

 life of the Society, it is nevertheless to be regretted that the 

 number of effective Members has remained practically stationary. 

 Five Ordinary Members were elected into the Society, one of 



