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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28th, 190G. 



The Thirty-first Annual General Meeting of the Society was 

 held in the Linnean Hall, 23 Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on 

 Wednesday evening, March 28th, 1906. 



Mr. T. Steel, F.C.S., F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding Annual General Meeting 

 (March 29th, 1905) were read and confirmed. 



The President delivered the Annual Address. 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



The past Session has been marked, as usual, by an amount of 

 scientific activity which affords grounds for satisfaction. Thirty- 

 two papers were read, and opportunities for the discussion of the 

 subjects treated of were offered, at the Meetings held during the 

 year. The majority of the papers have been published and dis- 

 tributed, together with a "Check-List of the Sub-family Carahince" 

 which was issued as a Supplement to Part i., free of cost to the 

 Society. The remainder, comprising the seven papers read at 

 the concluding Meeting of the Session, have been printed off and 

 will be issued in the last part of the Proceedings for 1905, which 

 is now almost ready for publication. Last year's volume will, in 

 respect of size, be somewhat behind its immediate predecessors, 

 but in this connection it must be remembered that early in the 

 Session a new issue of the Rules, &c., was printed, and also that 

 the Session opened with a debit balance of <£63, which neces- 

 sitated some curtailment of the Society's publishing energy. I 

 am very glad to say that the Hon. Treasurer will presently be 

 able to announce not only that the debit balance has been 

 liquidated, but also that the Society begins the new financial 

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