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MINUTES of the Annual General Meeting of 

 the EoYAL Society of Tasmania, held at the 

 Museum, Macquarie-street, at half-past 7 o'clock 

 p.m., on the 28th January, 1876, Morton 

 Allj^ort, Esq., V.P., in the chair. 



The Chairman having read the advertisement 

 by which tlie meeting had been convened, called 

 upon the Secretary to read the Report. 



The Report for 1875 was then read. 



It was moved by Mr. Rule, seconded by Dr. 

 Lewis, and carried : — " That the Report be 

 adopted, and printed for circulation amongst the 

 Pellows." 



The Secretary having reported that the retiring 

 Members of Council were the Right Rev. Bishop 

 Bromby, the Ven. Archdeacon Davies, Dr. Agnew, 

 and Mr. M. Allport, it was resolved on the motion 

 of Dr. Perkins, seconded by Mr. Napier, that 

 they should be re-elected. 



It was proposed by Dr. Agnew and seconded 

 by Mr. Barnard, that Mr. Barclay be elected 

 Treasurer of the Society, in the room of Mr. Dunn, 

 who had left the colony. Carried. 



Messrs. H. Cook and John Macfarlane were 

 unanimously re-elected as Auditors of Annual 

 Accounts, and a vote of thanks was accorded to 

 them for their services during the past year. 



Comte de Castlenau, Consul-General for France 

 at Melbourne, was elected a Corresponding Member 

 of the Society. 



The following gentlemen were ballotted for and 

 elected Fellows of the Society : — 'Messrs. Charles 

 Elliston, W. S. Hammond, Hopton Scott, and 

 Captain Audley Coote. 



