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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26th, 1907. 



The Ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Society was held in 

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

 evening, June 26th, 1907. 



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



The President called attention to a presentation copy of the 

 Biography of Carl von Linne, by Professor Th. M. Fries (2 vols.), 

 kindly forwarded by Count Morner, Consul for Sweden in Sydney, 

 on the author's behalf; and he stated that the Consul had been 

 asked to convey to the distinguished author the Society's very 

 cordial thanks for this exceedingly opportune and highly appreci- 

 ated gift, because many portraits, and representations of historic 

 scenes and objects to be found in these volumes had hitherto been 

 out of reach. 



The President also called attention to another most interesting 

 souvenir, namely, a presentation copy of the " Record of the 

 Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of 

 Benjamin Franklin, under the auspices of the American Philo- 

 sophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting Useful 

 Knowledge, April 17th-20th, 1906 (1906)" from the American 

 Philosophical Society. An appropriate acknowledgment would 

 be made at the earliest opportunity. 



At the request of Professor Liversidge the attention of 

 Members was called to circulars of information respecting the 

 recently established "British Science Guild " whose objects are : 



1. To bring together, as members of the Guild, all those throughout the 

 Empire interested in Science and Scientific Methods, in order by joint 

 action to convince the people, by means of publications and meetings, 

 of the necessity of applying the methods of science to all branches of 

 human endeavour, and thus to further the progress and increase the 

 welfare of the Empire. 



