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WED]^ESDAY, AUGUST 29x11, 1903. 



The Ordinary Monthh'- Meeting of the Society was held in 

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

 evening, August 29th, 1903. 



Dr. T. Storie Dixson, President, in the Chair. 



The President said that, as Members were aware, in the inter- 

 val since the last Meeting, Lady Macleay, the widow of the 

 Founder and Benefactor of the Society, had passed to her rest 

 after a brief illness. Lady Macleay's sustained interest in the 

 welfare of the Societ}'', and in the other plans for the advance- 

 ment of science inaugurated by her husband, Sir William Macleay, 

 was a source of gratification to the Societ3^ The Council, on 

 behalf of the Society, had already found occasion to give 

 expression to the profound regret which Lady Macleay's decease 

 had evoked; and also to respectfully tender sincere sympathy to 

 Mr. E. Deas Thomson and the members of the family. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting, amounting to 13 Vols., 59 Parts or Xos., 4 

 Bulletins, 3 Reports, 2 Miscellanea, and 11 INIaps, received from 

 52 Societies, etc., were laid upon the table. 

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