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LINNEAN SOCIETY 



NEAV^ SOUTH "WJ^LES. 



Wednesday, 29th March, 1922. 



The Forty-seventh Annual General Meeting, together with the Ordinary- 

 Monthly Meeting, was held in the Linnean Hall, Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on 

 Wednesday evening, 29th Mareli, 1922. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



Mr. G. A. Waterhouse, B.Sc, B.E., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding Annual General Meeting (30th March, 1921) 

 were read and confirmed. 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



It is customai-y for the address delivered by the President of this Society 

 at the Annual Meeting to be in two sections. One deals with a scientific subject, 

 and in this age of specialization it is becoming increasingly difSeult for the oc- 

 cupant of the Chair to choose a subject which will be of general interest and so 

 appeal to members other than those working in his own particular branch of 

 study. The other is a report on the aifaii-s of the Society for the year and on 

 any matters of general scientific importance in which the Society may be con- 

 cerned. 



The Australian National Research Council, following on the resolutions 

 carried at the meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of 

 Science in Januai-y, 1921, held two meetings during the year, the first in Sydney 

 during May and the second in Melbourne during August. At the first meeting 

 the membership was increased nearly to the full number and at the second meet- 

 ing important questions of policy were discussed and a number of committees 

 appointed to deal with various matters appertaining to Australian Science e.g. 



