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LINNEAN SOCIETY 



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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26th, 1900. 



The Twenty-fifth Annual General Meeting of the Society was 

 held at the Linnean Hall, Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on Wed- 

 nesday evening, March 28th, 1900. 



The Hon. James Norton, L.L.D., M.L.C., President, in the 



Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting were 

 read and confirmed. 



The President delivered the Annual Address. 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



I have to congratulate the Society on its having completed the 

 26th year of its existence, which could scarcely have been possible 

 but for the liberality of its active founder, the late lamented Sir 

 William Macleay, and for the laborious devotion of many of its 

 leading members. 



The number of members at the end of 1898 was 78, but, as our 

 worthy Hon. Treasurer took it much to heart that the membership 



