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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29th, 1893. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



The President, Professor Haswell, M.A., D.Sc, in the Chair. 



Messrs. L. Stephenson, R. Murdoch, A. H. S. Lucas, and Captain 

 Hynes were introduced as visitors. 



The minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read and 

 confirmed. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



During the fourteen months which have elapsed since the last 

 Annual General Meeting the Society may be said to have had a 

 season of steady work and substantial progress. The ordinary 

 meetings have been well attended, and I think I may say that the 

 papers contributed have on the average attained a very high level 

 of excellence. In respect of bulk, notwithstanding a considerable 

 drain resulting from the simultaneous publication of the Macleay 

 Memorial Volume, the " Proceedings " of the year will be up to 

 the average : three parts have already been issued and the fourth 

 is in preparation. 



During the year ten new members have been elected : eleven 

 have been lost by death or retirement, leaving a total of about 137 

 ordinary members on the roll of the Society. 



It is my painful duty to have to record the loss which the 

 Society has sustained during the past year by the deaths of six 

 ordinary members — the Rev. R. Collie, F.L.S., the Rev. William 

 Woolls, Ph.D., F.L.S., the Hon. Alex. Dodds, M.L.C., Layman 

 M. Harrison, J. N. Macintosh and W. Neill. 



The Rev. R. Collie, a native of Aberdeenshire, came to New 

 South Wales in 1876, and was elected minister of the Free Church 

 of Scotland at Newtown, in which charge he continued until his 



