PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
Annual Meeting of Members, 
HELD ON SATURDAY, 27th JANUARY, 1906. 
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The Annual Meeting of Members was held at the Technical 
College, on Saturday, 27th January, 1906. 
The President (J. Brownlie Henderson) occupied the chair. 
The following Report of the Council and the Treasurer's 
Statement for the 1905 Session were read and adopted :— 
To the Members of the Royal Society of Queensland. 
Your Council have pleasure in submitting the report of 
the work done during the past Session. 
Monthly Meetings.—Seven Monthly Meetings were held, at 
which the following papers were read :— 
15th April—Some hitherto unknown manuscripts relating 
to the first French Republic, by 8S. B. J. Skertchly. 
27th May—A Disease Garden, by Dr. J. Thomson. 
25th June— Paraguay, by John Lane. 
5th August—A Typical Queensland Lagoon, and methods 
of purifying water for a town supply, by H. Wasiteneys. 
26th August—Java, by J. Brownlie Henderson. 
25th September—The New Zealand Education System, by 
J. Shirley. 
2nd November—Three-Colour Photography, by W. Saville 
Kent. 
Three interim meetings were also held, at two of which 
the Hon. A. Norton gave exhibitions of lantern slides, and at 
one Mr. Shirley gave a lecture on Insects and Flowers. 
New Members.—Hight members were elected during the 
year, namely: 27th May, J. C. Brunnich and H. Wasteneys ; 
5th August, R. M. Steele and W. E. Evans; 26th August, 
Henry Tryon ; 25th September, Messrs. J. Cowan, F. EK. Connah, 
and P. W. Jones. 
The Council regret to record the death of two members, 
viz., the Hon. Sir A. C. Gregory, K.C.M.G., and the Right 
Hon. Sir H. M. Nelson, K.C.M.G, The first-named gentleman 
