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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27th, 1901. 



The Twenty-sixth Annual General Meeting of the Society was 

 held in the Linnean Hall, 23 Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on 

 Wednesday evening, March 27th, 1901. 



The Hon. James Norton, LL.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. 



During the year just expired, ten new members have been 

 elected and two have resigned, but we have had no losses by 

 death. There are now on the roll 118 ordinary members, 5 

 associate members, and 19 honorary and corresponding members. 

 Although these figures do not show as large an increase as we 

 had hoped for, it is a matter for congratulation that the Society 

 has not retrograded. 



I regret to have to mention that, on account of the pressure 

 of other arduous duties, Professor Wilson has felt compelled to 

 resign his membership of the Council. Mr. W. S. Dun, F.G.S., 

 was elected in his place, but, under section 6 of the Act of 

 Incorporation of the Society, he now retires, and it rests with 

 you to elect a President and six members of committee, in the 

 place of myself, Dr. J. C. Cox, Dr. Thomas Dixson, Mr. W. S. 

 Dun, Professor W. A. Haswell, and Mr. Perceval R. Pedley, who 

 retire by rotation, but are all eligible for re-election. 



In the Bacteriological section, Mr. Greig Smith has been 

 steadily at work, the results of which are shewn in the nine 



