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WKDNFiSDAY, MAY 26th, 1909. 



The Ordinaiy Monthly Meeting of the Society was held in 

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

 evening, May 26th, 1909, 



Mr. 0. Hedley, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Arthur Bache Walkom, Ashfield, was elected a Member 

 of the Society, 



A letter was read from Professor T. W. Edgeworth David, 

 addressed to Mr. A. H. S. Lucas, returning thanks for the con- 

 gratulations and message of welcome tendered to him at the Lord 

 Mayor's Reception on the occasion of his return from Antarctica 

 with the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907, by the retiring 

 President on the Society's behalf. 



A letter w^as read from the President of the University of 

 Sydney Medical Society, commending to the notice of Members 

 the projected Memorial of the late Dr. T. C. Parkinson, who died 

 in January last from accidental infection while carrying on inves- 

 tigations in connection with the Indian Plague Commission. 



The President called attention to a Special General Meeting to 

 be held on 30th June, 1909, at 8 o'clock (before the Ordinary 

 Monthly Meeting on the same date). Business : to consider the 

 amendment of Rules ii., iii., iv., vi., viii., and xlvii., with a view 

 to the admission of Women to full Membership. [A special 

 circular giving details was issued to Members with the Abstract.] 



The President offered the Society's congratulations to Dr. H. 

 I. Jensen, to whom the Syme Prize for the encouragement of 

 Research Work in Natural Science had recently heen awarded 

 by the University of Melbourne. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting, amounting to 9 Vols., 85 Parts or Nos., 25 

 Bulletins, 2 Reports, and 27 Pamphlets, received from 59 

 Societies, &c., and 2 Individuals were laid upon the table. 



