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WEDNESDAY, NOVEIStBER 24th, 1897. 



SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING. 



Professor J. T. Wilson, M.B., President, in the Chair. 



The draft of the Revised Rules submitted by the Council was 

 brought up for the consideration of Members. On the motion of 

 Mr. Henry Deane, the Rules as submitted were unanimously 

 adopted. 



MONTHLY MEETING. 



The President formally announced the death of Professor T. 

 Jeffery Parker, D.Sc, F.R.S., of Dunedin, a Corresponding 

 Member of the Society, on the 7th instant. It was resolved that 

 an expression of sympathy from the Society should be tendered 

 to Professor Parker's famil}'. 



The President commended to the favourable notice of the 

 Members the report of a meeting held at the Town Hall, Mel- 

 bourne, on the 16th inst., for the purpose of forwarding the 

 movement to establish some permanent memorial of the late 

 Baron von Mueller when it was resolved that it was desirable that 

 steps should be taken to commemorate in some suitable way the 

 late Baron's work; and an influential Committee was appointed 

 to carry out the proposal. It is hoped that a sufficient sum of 

 money will l^e forthcoming to provide for a bust or medallion of 

 the Baron, as well as for the endowment of a medal or prize to be 

 associated with the Baron's name, and to be awarded from time 

 to time in recognition of botanical, pharmaceutical, or horticul- 

 tural work in the various Australasian Colonies. Subscriptions 



