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Mr. H. C. Bfssell then read his paper on " Meteorological 

 Periodicity." 



A discussion ensued, in which Professor Smith, the Hon. 

 Leopold Pane de Salis, Mr. Du Paur, Dr. Belgrave, and the 

 Chairman took part. 



WEDNESDAY, 1st NOYEMBEE, 1876. 



Ordinary monthly meeting of the Royal Society of New 

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

 The Rev. W. B. Clakke, Y.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. : — 



W. R. G-eorge, 172, Castlereagh-street. 

 Ernest Docker, Macleay- street. 

 Bernard Austin Preehill, 130, Elizabeth- street. 

 G-eorge Prederick Dansey, M.R.C.S., London, York and 

 Margaret Streets, Wynyard Square. 

 Pive new candidates were proposed and seconded. 



Public Health Act. 



Mr. H. C. Russell stated that at the last meeting a deputa- 

 tion was appointed by the Society to wait on the Colonial 

 Secretary, for the purpose of urging him to introduce some 

 measure for the improvement of the sanitary condition of the 

 eity. The deputation saw the Honorable the Colonial Secretary 

 on the 31st October, and he informed them that if the Society 

 would undertake to prepare a Bill he would assist and if possible 

 get it passed. Mr. Russell further stated, that though this was 

 not a subject that he had thought much of, he considered the 

 Society ought to do all in their power to get a Bill passed that 

 would remove all offensive things from their streets. It might 

 be thought that in framing a Bill the Society would be taking 

 upon them in some sort a political duty. That was a matter that 

 ought to be carefully looked at. But still he felt so much the 

 desirability of pressing the matter forward that he would move 

 the following resolution : — " That the request of the Honorable 

 Colonial Secretary, conveyed through the deputation which 

 waited on him on the 31st ultimo, to urge the necessity for 

 passing a Public Health Bill be complied with, and that a Com- 

 mittee, consisting of the Chairman and Secretaries of the Medical 

 and Sanitary Sections, W. Gr. Murray, Esq., and the Honorary 

 Secretaries of the Society, be appointed to prepare, with the 

 Parliamentary Draftsman, a Public Health Bill ; and that such 

 Committee be empowered to sit during the prorogation of the 

 Society's session, and to submit such Bill to the Colonial Secre- 

 tary when completed." 



