23 Transactions of the 



MEETI:N'G, April 12th, 1873. 

 The Peksident ia the Chair. 



An extraordinary meeting was held in Mr. Grenfell's Room. 



The Treasiu-er, J. Allen, read the accounts for that term, showing 

 a balance of 13s- 3|d. 



H. Wills then proposed, and Jenkins seconded, the motion that 

 "there be an extra number of committee for next term." This 

 motion was carried. 



H. Wills then proposed that G. Dakyns be the extra member, was 

 seconded by R. M. Johnston, and carried. 



J. Duncuft then proposed that " this Society apologise to G. Dakyns 

 for the apparent want of confidence placed in him, and that he will 

 return to the post he has so ably filled." This motion, after some 

 discussion, was carried. 



This was the last meeting of the term. 



SECOND TERM, 1873. 



MEETING, May 13th, 1873. 

 The President in the Chair. 



The first meeting of the term was held in the Physical Lecture 

 Room. There were Thirty members and visitors present. 



The President proposed, and G. Dakyns seconded the motion, that 

 a new office be instituted under the name of Vice-President, and that 

 G. H. Wollaston, Esq., fill that office. Both these motions were 

 carried. H. S. Hall, Esq., was elected an Honorary j\Iember. 



The following members were elected by the Committee : — A. C. 

 St. Paul, A.W. Armitage, J. P. Marsh, G. Fitz-Gibbon, R. Fitz-Gibbon, 

 T. H. Bailey, Berthon Heath, and M. Wills. From the Junior 

 School — Reynolds, Thurburn, Hathaway, and Somerville. 



Donations acknowledged : — Two Books, The liritish Paleozoic 

 Rocks and Fossils, by Sedgwick and McCoy, and the Catalogue of 

 Cambrian and Silurian Fossils, presented by Rev. H. J.Wiseman; 

 Skulls of two wolves by Firth ; Fossils by the President ; Coins 

 (Jamaica) and Fossils by Capt. Jones; Egyptian Necklaue, with a 

 figure of Pajhl in porcelain (dug out of an Egyptian tomb in 1840), 

 from R. M. Johnston. 



H. C. Jones then read a paper on " Sugar'," after which the 

 Secretary read a paper by G. Locke (O.C), on " Diamonds." 



