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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30th, 1898. 



The Twenty-fourth Annual General Meeting of the Society 

 was held in the Linnean Hall, Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on 

 Wednesday evening, March 30th, 1898. 



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



The Minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting were 

 read and confirmed. 



The President then delivered the Annual Address. 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



In reviewing the work of the past Session, it is satisfactory to 

 be able to report that it has been a decidedly busy one. The full 

 number of Meetings was held, the number of papers read being 

 forty-nine. The majority of these are contained in the three 

 Parts of the Proceedings for 1897 which have been published 

 and distributed. The balance of the papers are already in type, 

 so that the concluding Part is well advanced. 



Nine Ordinary Members were elected into the Society during 

 the year; one Member resigned on his departure from Australia; 

 and the Roll has been further depleted by the demise of one 

 Ordinary and one Corresponding Member. 



Mr Robert Cooper Walker, late Principal Librarian of the 

 Sydney Public Library, who died on July 25th, 1897, in his 65th 

 year, was one of the Society's Original Members who kept up his 

 membership to the last. He was the son of the late Rev. James 

 Walker, M.A., Oxon., some time Head Master of the King's 

 School, Parramatta. Mr. Walker was born in England, but 

 came to the Colony while still young. He entered the public 

 service in 1855; and in 1869 he was appointed to the position of 



