396 THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE LlNNEAN SOCIETY 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



MONDAY, 22nd JANUARY, 1876. 

 William Macleay, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



The Minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read and 

 confirmed. 



The President delivered the following address : — 



Gentlemen, — 



When I addressed you on the occa ion ot our last annual 

 meeting, the Linnean Society of New South Wales was in its 

 infancy, and its future, though hopeful, could not be confidently 

 foretold. 1 then anticipated for it a successful and useful career, 

 but 1 never expected that it would have made the wonderful pro- 

 gress which it is now my pleasing duty to record. 



On the score of pecuniary means I had no misgivings. The long 

 list of members on the roll of the Society gave promise of sufficient 

 funds for meeting all expenses incurred for rooms and printing, 

 but I was not confident that the working members of the Society 

 would persevere in the work which they had so well begun. 



My doubts on that ground have been signally dispelled. At 

 every monthly meeting throughout the entire year, original papers 

 have been read on various subjects connected with the science of 

 Natural History, all of them of utility to the student of Nature, 

 and some of them of considerable interest and merit. 



Three parts of the proceedings of the Society have been pub- 

 lished during the year. The fourth part is in the hands of the 

 printer, and, when published, will complete the first volume of the 

 proceedings. 



