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WEDNESDAY, 5th JULY, 1876. 



Ordinary montlily meeting of tlie Eoyal Society of ]N'ew 

 South Wales, held in the Society's Eooms, Elizabeth-street. 



The Eev. W. JB. Claeke, V.P., in the Chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary members 

 of the Society, viz. : — 



William George Tayler,P.E.C.S., London, 219, Pitt- street. 



W. H. Eldred, 119, Castlereagh-street. 



Archibald Atcheson, North Shore. 



William Hedley Drake, Commercial Bank, Inverell. 



The Hon. Alexander Campbell, M.L.C., Woollahra. 



W. A. Brodribb, Eiverina. 



W. O. Gilchrist, Fnion Club. 



James Osborne, Wollongong. 



William Eorde, 4 Carlton Terrace, Wynyard Square. 



Henry Heron, William-street South. 



Thomas S. Parrott, Ashfield. 



John Leo Watkins, B.iV., Eandwick. 



The certificates of thirty candidates were read. 



The Honorary Treasurer drew the attention of members to 

 the 15th Bye-law, providing for the posting up in the Eooms of 

 the Society of the names of members who are in arrears with 

 their annual subscriptions, and stated that he had not prepared 

 the list for this meeting because the new Eules were only passed 

 in June, but that in future this Bye-law would be strictly enforced. 



Professor Liversidge then gave an account of the meetings 

 of the several Sections according to appointments made at the 

 last meeting of the Society. Section C, on Greology and Palseon- 

 tology, had been amalgamated with Section B, on Chemistry and 

 Mineralogy. It had also been decided by the Council that 

 Section H should include Medical Science only ; and that Section 

 I should include Sanitary and Social Science and Statistics. 



Professor Liveesidge further reported that the following 

 gentlemen had been elected officers of the undermentioned 

 Sections, viz. : — 



Section A — Astronomical and Physical Science. — Chairman : 

 H. C.Eussell, B.A.,F.E.A.S. Committee: G-. D. Hirst, 

 H. A. Lenehan, Eev. W. Scott, M.A., and Dr. Wright. 

 Secretary : J. M'Donald, F.E.A.S. 



Section B — Chemistry and Mineralogy, with which is incor- 

 porated Section C — Geology &c. — Chairman : Professor 

 Liversidge. Committee : S. L. Bensusan, J. W. 

 M'Cutcheon, J. S. Sleep, W. ¥. Tulloh. Secretary, W. 

 A. Dixon, F.C.S. 



