ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



28th January, 1885. 



The President, C. S. Wilkinson, F.G.S., F.L.S., in the Chair. 



President's Address. 



It is again my privilege to address you on the occasion of our 

 Meeting here this evening to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of 

 the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



The Members must I feel sure be gratified with the progress 

 that has been made during the past year — progress that is mani- 

 fested in the increased amount of valuable original research which 

 has been contributed through the Society to the Science of Natural 

 History. 



The number of Members has also increased to 164, as against 

 153 at the end of 1883, notwithstanding, as it is our painful 

 duty to record, the loss of six by death — Dr. Badham, Mr. J. F. 

 Bailey, Hon. Joseph Docker, Dr. Joseph, Monsignor Lynch, and 

 Dr. Palmer. 



During the year M. Theodore Lef^vre, Secretary of the Royal 

 Malacological Society of Belgium, has been elected an Honorary 

 Member ; and Mr. G. F. Angas, F.L.S., O.M.Z.S., of Loudon, and 

 Mr. F. Jeffrey Bell, M.A., F.Z.S., Professor of Comparative 

 Anatomy, King's College, London, have been elected Correspond- 

 ing Members. 



The Act for the Incorporation of the Linnean Society of New 

 South Wales received the Royal assent on the 1st February. 



