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chance of preferment, our young men propei-ly ti-ained and 

 equipped for science will have something like an equal chance in 

 the race for life with their confreres at the bar, in politics, in 

 medicine, in commerce and in other avocations. 



On the motion of Mr. Henry Deane, M.A., a hearty vote of 

 thanks was accorded to the Chairman for his interesting address. 



The Hon. Dr. Norton, Hon. Treasurer, laid before the Meeting 

 his financial statement, and concluded by saying " I have further 

 to report that by deed of 5th December, 1890, Sir William 

 Macleay has transferred to the Society the Linnean Hall, with 

 the land on which it .stands having a frontage of 179 feet to Bay 

 Street by a depth of 120 feet ; and that by deed of the same date 

 Sir William has also transferred to the Society by way of endow- 

 ment a mortgage of £14,000 bearing interest at the rate of £5 per 

 cent, per annum. The deeds by which these transfers have been 

 eftected are now in my hands." 



On the motion of Mr. R. Etheridge it was unanimously and 

 most gratefully resolved that the heartiest vote of thanks possible 

 be accorded to Sir William Macleay in recognition of the 

 latest of his many munificent benefactions to the Society ; and 

 that the Chairman be requested to give effect to the resolution. 



The following gentlemen were elected 



OFFICE-BEARERS AND COUNCIL FOR 1891. 



President: 

 Professor W. A. Haswell, M.A., D.Sc. 



Vice-Presidents : 



James C. Cox, M.D., F.L.S. 

 C. S. Wilkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S. 

 Rev. W. Woolls, Ph.D., F.L.S. 



