1882. 



PROCEEDINGS. 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 

 March 15th, 1883. 



The President in the chair. Present, 22 members and associates. 



The Annual Report and Balance-sheet for 1882 were read, as 

 follow : — 



" Report of the Council of the Royal Society of Victoria, for 



the Year 1882. 



u Your Council has again to report the conclusion of a satisfactory 

 year, during which the number of members increased, and the 

 activity shown in the preparation of papers, in the attendance at the 

 meetings, and in the discussion evoked by the various subjects of 

 interest brought under the notice of the Society, was generally 

 gratifying. 



" We continued to send our Transactions to all the leading 

 scientific societies of the world, and in return have received 59 

 volumes and 432 parts of scientific publications. 



" The Council has agreed to set aside a certain sum annually for 

 the binding of the valuable scientific works now stored away upon 

 our shelves, and during the year have had sixty-three volumes bound. 



" The Crown grant of the land on which the Society's hall is 

 situated is now in course of preparation, and will ere long be in the 

 possession of the Society. It will be issued in the names of Sir 

 William Stawell, Mr. R. L. J. Ellery, Mr. E. J. White, and Mr. 

 W. C. Kernot, as trustees for the Society. 



"During the past session there have been elected 21 members 

 and 8 associates. The Society now consists of 163 members, 6 

 corresponding members, 8 honorary members, and 41 associates ; 

 or, in all, 218 gentlemen belonging to the Society. 



