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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27th, 1892. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



The President, Professor Has well, M.A., D.Sc, in the Chair 



The mi 

 confirmed. 



The minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read and 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



The past year is one which, I have little doubt, will always be 

 looked back upon as one of the most eventful in the history of 

 this Society. During its course we have lost by death two of our 

 most valued members, one of whom had long been in many ways 

 the mainstay of the Society, and we have been placed by a 

 generous bequest in a position in which our opportunities of doing 

 good work ought to be considerably increased. 



The attendance at the monthly meetings during the year has, 

 on the whole, been satisfactory : and a number of papers of interest 

 and value have been read. In addition to the reading of these 

 there have been exhibitions of many interesting objects, often 

 suggestive of new fields of inquiry. 



During the year seven new members have been elected, and five 

 have been lost by death or retirement. Four members have died 

 during the year, namely, Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, Mr. K. H. Bennett, 

 Sir William Macleay, and Sir John Hay. 



Charles Smith Wilkinson, Government Geologist, who died on 

 August 25th at the comparatively early age of 47, was born in 

 England in 1843. For some 25 years he was engaged in the work 

 of geological surveying in this colony and in Victoria, and, though 

 the demands of his official work, relating in great measure to the 

 development of mining industries, left him but little leisure, he 



