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ORDINARY MONTHLY MEETING. 



May 27th, 1914. 



Mr. C. Hedley, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. W. J. Enright, West Maitland, was elected an Ordinar}' 

 Member of the Society. 



The Chairman regretfully announced the decease, on 15th inst,, 

 of Mr. E. G. W. Palmer, a Member of the Society elected in 

 1885, for some time a Member of the Council, and subsequently 

 one of the Society's Honorary Auditors; and who, for many years, 

 took an active interest in the Society's work and welfare. 



The Secretary communicated a letter from the Hon. N. C. 

 Rothschild, representing the Societ}?^ for the Promotion of Nature- 

 Reserves, recently established in England, accompanying a pro- 

 spectus and circulars relating thereto. The writer said — " Al- 

 though the Society primarily conducts its operations in the 

 British Islands, we think that a similar movement should be 

 encouraged in all parts of the Empire, and it is to ask you if you 

 could bring the objects of the Society to the notice of the Gov- 

 ernment, the various men of Science, and lovers of Nature in 

 Australia, that I am venturing to send you this letter. Austra- 

 lia being still largely undeveloped^ affords, I think I may say, 

 a unique opportunity for securing adequate Nature-reserves to 

 preserve its fauna and flora in perpetuity, and, therefore, I think 

 no excuse is needed for sending you details of this Society." [See 

 an article on " Nature-Reserves," by Sir E. Ray Lankester, in 

 "Nature," March 12th, 1914, p.33]. 



The Secretary called attention to some historically interesting 

 as well as scientifically valuable, old prints of Australian plants, 

 framed and glazed, presented to the Society by the Rev. James 

 Lamont, F.L.S., of Mosman, since the last Meeting. They are 

 Plates 2, 3, 7, 8, 9 and 10 (with two others still to come) of Parts 

 i. and ii. of the very rare coloured issue of " Illustrationes Horf^ 



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