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Ordinary Meetings. 



8th May, 1879. 



R. L. J. Ellery, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair — Present, 

 23 members. 



Mr. J. E. Edwards and Mr. C. M. Maplestone were elected 

 associates. 



The Committee which had been appointed to consider the pro- 

 position to hold a series of winter lectures brought up their report, 

 in which they recommend that a course of lectures be held during 

 the winter months. 



The report of the Committee was approved. 



Mr. Ellery read a paper " On the Pielation Between Forest 

 Lands and Climate in Victoria. " 



A discussion followed, in which Sir Redmond Barry, K.C.B., 

 and other members took part. 



Sir Redmond Barry, K.C.M.G., read an account of a collection 

 of MSS. relating to the early history of the Colony of Victoria, 

 deposited in the Melbourne Public Library by the executors of 

 the late Governor, Charles Joseph La Trobe, C.B. He moved 

 that a Committee be appointed to confer with the Trustees of the 

 Public Library to consider the advisability of printing the said 

 MSS. 



A Committee was then appointed for that purpose, who were 

 also requested to to take into consideration the publication of the 

 Burke and Wills records. 



Mr. Kernot read a paper prepared by Mr. F. Campbell " On 

 the Tensile Strength of some Australian Timbers," on which a 

 discussion ensued. 



(Signed) Robt. L. J. Ellery. 



12th June, 1879. 



R. L. J. Ellery, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the Chair— Present, 

 15 members and associates. 



Mr. E. B. Heffernan, M.D., was elected a member of the Society. 



Mr. W. H. Caught and Mr. W. E. Holmes were elected associates 

 of the Society. 



A circular from the Commissioners of the Melbourne Inter- 

 national Exhibition of 1880, with reference to a Social Science 

 Congress, was read and referred to the Council. 



Mr. Alfred W. Howitt, F.G.S., read a precis of his paper "On 

 the Diorites and Granites of Swift's Creek, Omeo." 



The discussion of the paper was deferred until after its publica- 

 tion. 



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