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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31st, 1909. 



The Thirty-fourth Annual General Meeting, and the Ordinary 

 Monthly Meeting, were held in the Liiinean Hall, Ithaca Road, 

 Elizabeth Bay, on Wednesday evening, March 31st, 1909, 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



Mr. A. H. S. Lucas, M.A., B.Sc, President, in the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the preceding Annual General Meeting 

 (March 25th, 1908) were read and confirmed. 



The President delivered the Annual Address. 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



The year we are now concluding has been one of quiet and 

 steady work, unmarked by any special departure from our usual 

 programme. In numbers we have made a small increase, ten 

 Ordinary Members having been elected during the year, while 

 we have lost two Associate Members by resignation and two 

 Ordinary Members by death. Sir Arthur Ren wick and Sir John 

 Hay were both men of mark in the community. They were not 

 actively or directly interested in any particular branch of science, 



