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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26tii, 1899. 



The Ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Society was held at the 

 Linnean Hali, Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on AVednesday 

 evening, April 26 th, 1899, 



The Hon. James Norton, LL.D., M.L.C., President, in the 

 Chair. 



The Pi'esident made the following announcements : — 



1. Under the provisions of Rule xxv., the Council had elected 



Dr. J. C. Cox, F.L.S., Prof. David, B.A., E.G.S., Mr. 

 Henry Deane, M.A., F.L.S., and Professor J. T. Wilson, 

 M.B , Ch.M., to be Vice Presidents; and Mr. Prosper 

 N. Trebeck, J. P., to be Hon. Treasurer for the current 

 year. 



2. At a Special General Meeting, held on the 19th inst., it 



was unanimously resolved to adopt the recommendation, 

 of the Council that, for the remainder of the current year, 

 the payment of Entrance Pees as pro^■ided for by Rule vi., 

 should be suspended. 



3. A Special General Meeting will be held on May 3Ist, at 



8 o'clock, to take precedence of the Monthly Meeting 

 of the same date. Business : to confirm the action of 

 the Special General Meeting held on the 19th April. 



The President called attention to certain documents forwarded 

 by the Rev. W. W. Watts, of Ballina, giving particulars of a 

 movement to secure the reservation of a portion of the Big Scrub 

 on the Richmond River, known as Marshall's Falls, and some of 

 the adjacent forest as a National Park. Every effort to preserve 

 even limited areas of the characteristic vegetation in as nearly a.s 



