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NEW SOUTH. WALES. 



WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26th, 1913. 



The Thirty-eighth Annual General Meeting, and the Ordi- 

 nary Monthly Meeting, were held in the Linnean Hall, Ithaca 

 Road, Elizabeth Bay, on Wednesday evening, March 26th, 

 1913. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



Mr. W. W. Froggatt, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the preceding Annual General Meeting 

 (March 27th, 1912) were read and confirmed. 

 The President delivered the Annual Address. 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



During the past year, twenty-five individuals passed the ballot, 

 but only twenty of them accepted the obligations of membership. 

 A new edition of the Rules, with an up-to-date List of Members, 

 has been distributed with Part 3 of the Proceedings for 1912, from 

 which it will be seen that the number of Ordinary Members now on 

 the Roll is 167 — a larger number than the Society began with in 

 1875 (105), but a smaller number than it has had at some periods 

 of its history. 



Though this meeting is only the Thirty-eighth Annual General 

 Meeting, I may remind you that the Society had a predecessor, the 

 Entomological Society of New South Wales, which, had it sur- 

 vived, would have been in a position to celebrate its jubilee last 

 year. The first Monthly Meeting of the Entomological Society was 

 held on 5th May, 1862. The meetings were continued until July, 



