1868. 

 PEOCEEDINGS. 



EOYAL SOCIETY OF VICTOKIA. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



13th January, 1868. 



The President, R. L. J. Ellery, Esq., in the chair. 



The Hon. Secretary (Mr. Thos. H. Rawlings) read the following 



Report of the Council for the year 1867 : — 



" The Council, in submitting its report for the year 1867, has much 

 " pleasure in offering to the members its congratulations on the result 

 " of the past session. 



" The presence of His Royal Highness Prince Alfred in the colony, 

 " afforded the Council, towards the termination of the year, an 

 " opportunity of presenting in the name of the Society, an address of 

 " congratulation, together with a copy of the Transactions, suitably 

 " bound ; both of which His Royal Highness was graciously pleased 

 " to accept, and the reply thereto will be read to the Society. 



" The Council regret, however, that the Society, representing as it 

 " does science in Victoria, and being the oldest of the Royal Societies 

 " in the Australian Colonies, should have been utterly ignored by the 

 " Reception Committee in all its arrangements, a course of action 

 " contrasting so invidiously with the custom adopted in England and 

 " elsewhere, towards scientific bodies. 



" On the 4th March, the Annual Conversazione of the Society was 

 " held. His Excellency, Sir J. H. T. Manners Sutton, the patron of 

 " the Society, presiding, when the customary annual address of the 

 " President was delivered, and other papers read. 



" On the 10th June, Mr. J. Cosmo Newbery was elected a member 

 " of Council, in place of Mr. T. E. Rawlinson, an old and valued 

 u member of the Society, who has removed to the Western District. 



u The ordinary work of the session has far exceeded that of late 

 " years. Twelve ordinary meetings have been held ; (the first meeting, 

 " in January was, however, solely occupied with the reception of the 

 " Report, Balance-sheet, and election of officers) at which nineteen 

 " papers were read, and in enumerating them in the order submitted 

 " to the members, the Council congratulate the Society that, from 



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