T^nOCElKlDINOS 



OF THE 



LINiNEAN S0CIP:TY 



OF 



WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29th, 1911. 



The Thirty-sixth Annual General Meeting, and the 

 Ordinary Monthly Meeting, were held in the Linnean Hall, 

 Jthaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on Wednesday evening, March 

 29th, 1911. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



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

 The Minutes of the preceding Annual General Meeting 

 (March 30th, 1910) were read and confirmed. 

 The President delivered the Annual Address. 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 

 L.'VDiES AND Gentlemen — 



Among the announcements which I have to make to-night, 

 at this our Thirty-sixth Annual Meeting, probably none will 

 give you greater satisfaction or have a greater influence upon 

 our future career than the statemeirt that we now, for the 

 first time, meet on our own property. 



In giving us this Hall, the Founder gave all that was his 

 to give, which was the leasehold of 89 years' tenure. Recently 

 the estate came into the market. In consideration of the aim 

 and work of the Society, and of the great interest of his 

 predecessors in the title in Science, the land was generously 

 offered to us by the proprietor, Col. Macarthur-Onslow, on 

 exceptionally advantageous terms, and your Council embraced 



