ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, 1885. 



The Ninth Annual General Meeting was held in the Society's 

 Rooms, Horninglow Street, on Tuesday, March 17th, 1885. 



The President being absent, the Revd. C. F. Thornewill, as Vice 

 President, took the Chair with the room well filled; members showing 

 a marked interest in the official working of the Society. 



The Officers of the Society for the current year were unanimously 

 elected : the Reports of the Committee, Sub-committee and Sections, 

 and the Balance Sheet were read and adopted. Several important 

 changes in the Rules were proposed and, after considerable discussion, 

 were almost unanimously adopted. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. 



Your Committee, in drnwins; up the report of the proceedinsfs of 

 the Society for the Ninth Session, have decided to recommend a most 

 important change in the constitution of the Society, and thev trust that, 

 as the alteration appears to them to be the most suitable wav to increase 

 the activity of the Society and the interest of Members, and for other 

 reasons to be a thoroughly desirable chansre, this meeting will support 

 the resolutions to be brought forward embodying the proposal. 



In following out the recommendations as to evening meetings, 

 proposed at the last Annual Meeting, we are pleased to note that certain 

 members of the Society have been doing most useful work, and that the 

 coming summer will in all probability see the members of the different 

 Sections more actively employed than has hitherto been the case. As 

 will be seen by the Secretaries' Reports on Sectional work, the Entomo- 

 logical Section have been most active, and although the number of its 

 members is not large, they have been most regular in their attendance 

 at the evening meetings. 



The Geological Sf.ctiox, which has a very fair number of mem- 

 bers, had two well attended meetings earlv in the Session, and from the 

 number of points of interest in the district, mentioned bv Messrs. C. 

 O'SuUivan and Horace T. Prown as deserving special nttention from 

 Members of this Section, we look forward to active field work during the 

 Summer, 



