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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25th, 1902. 



The Ordiiiaiy Monthly Meeting of the Society was held in 

 the Linnean Hall, Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on Wednesday 

 evening, June 25th, 1902. 



Mr. J. H. Maiden, F.L.S., &c.. President, in the Chair. 



Dr. F. A. GoDiNG, U.S. Consulate, Newcastle, N.S.W.; and 

 Mr. A. J. Walkom, Sydney, were elected Ordinary Members of 

 the Society. 



A letter from Mr. J. R. Garland, M.A., thanking the Members 

 of the Society for their expression of sympathy, was read to the 

 Meeting. 



By the wish of the Council, the President explained to the 

 Meeting that, in consequence of the retrenchment policy which 

 untoward circumstances had forced upon the neighbouring 

 State of Queensland, it was to be feared that Mr. F. M. Bailey's 

 " Queensland Flora," now in course of publication, would be 

 brought to an abrupt termination in the middle of the sixth or 

 concluding Part. An expression of the views of scientific men 

 in other States would perhaps help to justify the Queensland 

 Government in making some special effort to utilise to the full 

 Mr. Bailey's experience and unrivalled knowledge of the flora of 

 Queensland in completing the important publication in question. 



On the motion of the President, it was unanimously 

 resolved : — 



That this Meeting desires respectfully to give expression to the 

 hope that, in the interests of science, the Queensland Government 

 may see its way to allow^ Mr. F. M. Bailey to take the steps 

 necessary to complete the " Queensland Flora." 



The Donations and Exchanges for the month, amounting to 7 

 Vols., 32 Parts or Nos., 3 Reports, 1 Separate, and 3 Miscellanea, 

 received from 35 Societies, &c., and 1 Individual, were laid upon 

 the table. 



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