1886. 



PROCEEDINGS, 



ROYAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA. 



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ANNUAL MEETING. 



March llth, 1886. 



Present, the President (ia the chair) and 16 members and 

 associates. 



The Report of the Council and Balance-sheet for 1885 were read 

 and adopted. (See volume XXII., pp. 145-9). 



The retiring officers, with the exception of Mr. Sutherland, who 

 resigned the office of Honorary Secretary, were re-elected ; and Mr. 

 H. K. Eusden was elected Hon. Secretary. 



The meeting then resolved itself into an ordinary meeting, and 

 tlie minutes of the last ordinary meeting were read and confirmed. 



Dr. M'Gillivray's "Description of New, or Little-known, Polyzoa, 

 Part X.," was accepted as read ; and Mr. A. Sutherland read a paper by 

 the Rev. D. Macdonald (of Fate, New Hebrides) on "The Oceanic 

 Languages Shemitic." 



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