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MINUTES of the Annual General Meeting of 

 the Royal Society of Tasmania, held at the 

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

 p.m., on the 29th January, 1874 : T. Giblin, 

 Esq., in the chair. 



The Chairman having read the advertisement 

 by which the meeting had been convened, called 

 upon the Secretary to read the Report. 



The Report for 1873 was then read. 



It was moved by Mr. Webster, seconded by 

 Mr. Abbott, and carried : — '' That the Report be 

 adopted, and printed for circulation amongst the 

 Fellows." 



The Secretary having reported that the retiring 

 Members of Council were Messrs. F. Abbott, T. 

 Giblin, Justin McO. Browne, and A. G. Webster, 

 it was resolved that they should be re-elected. 



It was resolved, on the motion of Mr. Webster, 

 seconded by Mr. Abbott, that the Auditors of 

 Annual Accounts, Messrs. H. Cook and J. 

 Macfarlane^ be requested to act for the present 

 year. 



Mr. Morton Allport said it had been usual at 

 the conclusion of the annual meeting to move a 

 vote of thanks to the Honorary Secretary. This 

 vote had hitherto been treated rather as a formal 

 matter, but on this occasion he desired that it 

 should be a marked expression of the feeling of 

 the Society towards that gentleman. He (Mr. 

 Allport) had been more than a quarter of a century 

 connected with the Society, and had seen its 

 working under four different Secretaries, including 

 Dr. Agnew, and was convinced that the present 

 excellent position of the Society was mainly due 



