Report of the Meetings of the Society. 



Meeting held on the nth July. — G. H. Hawtayne, 

 C.M.G., C.M.Z.S., F.R.G.S., President, in the chair. 

 There were 10 members present. 



Elections. — Members : Messrs. C. L. Payne, R. B. 

 Pratt, and Col. the Hon. R. S. Cotton. 



Associates : Messrs. A. W. Swain, N. B. 

 Winter, R. J. Ferguson, T. H. K. Moulder, 

 Edmund Jones, and E. A. Jackman. 



The Chairman read a Report from the Agricultural 

 Committee, on the project of Mr. Gieffers for establish- 

 ing a large Starch Manufactory in the colony, recom- 

 mending the Society to encourage the formation of a 

 Company to carry out the plan, and also to grant a bonus 

 of $500 for the first shipment of 50 brls. of starch grown 

 and manufactured here. 



Mr. Cameron, in moving the adoption of the Report, 

 spoke in favour of the project, but as Mr. Gieffers had 

 already left the colony, the matter was allowed to drop. 



The Chairman informed the meeting that the Directors 

 had filled up the vacancies in their body caused by the 

 absence from the colony of Messrs. P. H. Nind and M. 

 Garnett, by Messrs. Jos. Monkhouse and Ferris Grant. 



The Chairman stated that he had received a letter 

 from Mr. Luke M. Hill, resigning his office of Honorary 

 Secretary on account of his being about to leave the 

 colony on the 20th inst., at the same time stating that 

 he was unavoidably prevented from attending the present 

 meeting. 



Mr. D. C. Cameron, in proposing the acceptance of 



