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LINNEAN SOCIETY 



OF 



WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30th, 1910. 



The Thirty-fifth Annual General Meeting, and the Ordinary 

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

 Elizabeth Bay, on Wednesday evening, March 30th, 1910. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



Mr. C. Hedley, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the preceding Annual General Meeting 

 (March 31st, 1909) were read and confirmed. 

 The President delivered the Annual Address. 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



Ladies and Gentlemen — 



It is the duty and the privilege of your President to conclude 

 his year of office by an Address at the Annual Meeting. Custom 

 requires that these addresses should consist partly of a history of 

 the Society during the past year and partly of a philosophical 

 treatise intended for the delectation of members. To prepare an 

 Address worthy of submission to so intellectual an audience is 

 the heaviest responsibility of the Presidency. I crave your 



