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Special General Meeting. 



dth August, 1877. 



The President in the Chair — Present, 14 members. 



Mr. Kawlinson moved and Mr. Howitt seconded that the fol- 

 lowing rule be added as No. LIX. : — 



"LIX. The Council shall have power to propose gentlemen not 

 resident in Victoria as Corresponding Members of the Society. 

 The Corresponding Members shall contribute to the Society papers 

 which may be received as those of ordinary members, and shall in 

 return be entitled to receive copies of the Society's publications." 



The motion was unanimously adopted. 



The special meeting then resolved itself into the 



Ordinary Meeting, 



9th August, 1877. 



Mr. H. E. Joseph, of Swans ton-street, was elected an ordinary 

 member of the Society. 



The Eev. J. E. T. Woods and Mr. Kobert Etheridge were 

 nominated as corresponding members. 



The President read the following notes supplementary to his 

 annual address : — 



*^ Reading over my address since its delivery, I am sorry to 

 find that I have made several omissions, which, had I possessed 

 more leisure before our annual meeting, would not have passed 

 uncorrected. The best I can do now is to tell you of them, and to 

 apologise to any concerned for my apparent remissness. 



*' In the first place, it seems to me that, while referring to our 

 Library and the necessity of making its contents more easily 

 available to our members, I omitted to mention and acknow- 

 ledge the continued efibrts of our Honorary Librarian to bring 

 about such a desirable state of things, and by the omission may 

 have inadvertently attached some blame to Dr. Neild. This, 

 however, was furthest from my intention, for no one knows better 

 than I how much our Librarian has done and is doing in this 

 direction. 



" Again, in referring to the progress made in our various science 

 and art departments, I regret to find that I have carelessly omitted 

 reference to several names of persons and instances of progress 

 which the occasion demanded and should have been referred to. 



"For instance, in speaking of the prosecution of geological 

 research in this colony, while I mentioned the names of several of 

 our fellow-members who have distinguished themselves, I am 

 exceedingly sorry to find I omitted the name of one who has 



