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 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27th, 1912. 



The Thirty-seventh Annual General Meeting, and the Ordinary 

 Monthly Meeting, were held in the Linnean Hall, Ithaca Road 

 Elizabeth Bay, on Wednesday evening, March 27th, 1912. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



Mr. W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S. President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceiing Annual General Meeting 

 (March 29th, 1911) were read and confirmed. 

 The President delivered the Annual Address. 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



Though no special anniversaries or extraneous events 

 demanded attention during the past year, I think I may say that 

 the Society found, in its ordinary legitimate work, enough to keep 

 it busily and enthusiastically occupied. 



Thirty-four papers, covering a wide range of subjects, were 

 communicated at the Monthly Meetings, while there was no 

 falling off in the number of exhibits of interest. The majority of 

 the papers have been published and distributed; the remaining 

 eight are printed off, and will be ready for issue on completion of 

 the index. The Society's new printers, Messrs. Pepperday & Co., 

 have shown a commendable desire to give satisfaction. The issues 

 of the Parts of the Proceedings have been slightly delayed, as 

 was to be expected; but now that the printing-room staff have 



