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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27x11, 1895. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



The twenty-first Annual General Meeting of the Society was 

 held in the Linnean Hall, Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on Wed- 

 nesday evening, March 27th, 1895. 



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



Miss Anderson, Mr. J. G. Anderson, M.A., and Mr. R. L. Jack, 

 E.G.S., of Queensland, were present as visitors. 



The Minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read and 

 confirmed. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



The twentieth year of the Society's history, notwithstanding 

 the still prevalent depression and continued " hard times," was 

 one of almost unwonted activity. Sixty papers requiring a more 

 liberal allowance of illustrations than usual were contributed at 

 the nine Monthly Meetings of the Session. Five Parts of the 

 Proceedings, including a legacy of arrears of three Parts from the 

 previous year, were issued, while Parts 3 and 4 of the Vol. for 

 1894 have been issued since the commencement of 1895. These 

 complete a Volume of average size, with more than the average 

 number of plates; but they do not include three lengthy and 

 important papers requiring illustrations, read at the November 

 Meeting. To prevent delay and to distribute expenditure, these 

 have accordingly been held over, and will without avoidable loss 

 of time be issued as Part 1 of the Proceedings for 1895. Ever 

 since the Macleay Memorial Volume was put in hand, four years 

 ago, the Society has been uninterruptedly in the printer's hands, 



