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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 



June 26th, 1912. 

 Mr. W. 8. Dun in the Chair. 



Miss Agnes Angus Brewster, Sydney: and Mr. William du 

 BouLAY, Sydney, were elected Ordinary Members of the Society. 



The Secretary communicated a letter from Dr. C. Bickerton 

 Blackburn, Sydney, returning thanks for the Society's expression 

 of sympathy, evoked by the death of his father, the Rev. T. 

 Blackburn, B.A., of Adelaide, a Corresponding Member. 



The Chairman formally announced the decease of Mr. George 

 Masters, on 23rd inst., in his seventy-Hfth year. Mr. Masters 

 became an active Member of the Entomological Society of New 

 South Wales, in 1862; and later on, an Original Member of the 

 Linnean Society of New South Wales. For some time he was 

 connected with the Australian Museum, Sydney, and made im- 

 portant collections for tliat Institution in West Australia, Tas- 

 mania, and elsewhere In February, 1874, Mr. Masters accepted 

 the position of Curator of the Macleay Collections, afterwards tlie 

 Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, which he held up to the 

 time of his death. Mr. Masters was an expert in collecting, and 

 museum technicpie: and accumulated a very considerable fund of 

 knowledge of the Australian fauna, and especially of Australian 

 insects, gained in the field; and it is matter for regret, that more 

 of it has not been placed on record. 



On the motion of Dr. Kesteven, it was resolved that a letter of 

 condolence should be sent to Mrs. Masters. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting (29th May, 1912), amounting to 22 Vols., 

 77 Parts or Nos., 49 Bulletins, 4 Reports, and 5 Pamphlets, 

 received from 63 Societies, &v., and <jne Individual, were laid 

 upon the table. 



