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Annual General Meeting 



The Annual General Meeting of the Royal Society was held 

 in the Society's rooms, Museum, on Monday, 6tli March, 191 1. 



His Excellency the President (Sir Harry Barron, K.C.M.G,, 

 C.V.O.), occupied the chair, and the Annual Reports for 1910 

 were submitted. 



ANNUAL REPORT FOR IQIO. 



The Council of the Royal Society have the honour to present 

 their Report for 1910 to the Annual General Meeting of the 

 Society. 



Eight monthly General Meetings, two special General Aleet- 

 ings, and a conversazione were held during the year. Ten 

 Ordinary Meetings and nine Special ^Meetings of the Council 

 were held during the same period. 



Twelve Fellows and one Associate were elected, while seven- 

 teen Fellows with one Associate left the State or allowed their 

 membership to lapse. 



Th total number of the Fellows of the Society were 140, 

 including nine Life Members. The number of Corresponding 

 Members is t,5- hut the list requires early revision. 



We regret to have to announce the death of His ^Majesty 

 King Edward VII., Patron of the Society; also since the Annual 

 Meeting the death of Mr. P>ernard Shaw (Chairman) and Dr. 

 'G. A. Webster (a member of the Council). 



Mr. Shaw was elected to the Council in 1894, and since that 

 ■date had taken an active part in the interests of the Society. 



Mr. Thos. Steele and ]\Ir. Leonard Rodway were elected to 

 take the place of Mr. Shaw and Dr. Webster. 



A vacancy in the Council caused by the resignation of Mr. 

 Russell Young, sen., was filled by the election of Mr. Russell 

 Young, jun. 



During the year Mr. W. F. Petterd. an active member of the 

 Society, died. Under the terms of his will he bequeathed to the 

 Society his collection of minerals, valued for probate at £1,212. 



The Society has agreed with the Trustees of the Tasmanian 

 Museum that this valuable collection be properly exhibited in 

 the Museum. 



The Council received a depiilation from members of the 

 Medical section of the Society i)resenting a request that the 

 Tasmanian section of the British Medical Association, under- 



