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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28th, 1894. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



The President, Professor David, B.A., F.G S., in the Chair. 



Messrs. W. E. Morgan, J. Nisbet, W. F. Smeetb, and Captain 

 Shuttleworth were introduced as visitors. 



The Minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read and 

 confirmed. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



The Society has now completed the nineteenth year of its 

 existence, and in conformity with the custom followed by my 

 predecessors in this office, I propose first to review the history 

 of the Society during the past year. I shall then give a short 

 summary of the present state of our knowledge of the geology of 

 Australasia during the greater part of the Palaeozoic Era. 



During the Session of 1893, the full number of Monthly 

 Meetings (nine) was held, at which forty-eight papers were read, 

 showing that the Society is maintaining its reputation for work 

 and progress. 



The special efi'orts made to finish the Macleay Memorial Vohime 

 necessitated keeping back the publication of Parts ii.-iv. of the 

 Proceedings for 1893. The delay so occasioned has been increased 

 through the printer's being fully occupied with the usual rush of 

 work about Christmas time, and by the time required for the 

 preparation of the plates to illustrate the Parts in question. 

 Matters now, however, have so far progressed that the remaining 

 Parts will be ready for issue at no very distant dates. 



