PROCEEDING-S 



OF THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY 



OF 



nsrETTT" SOUTH "\*7\A.I_,:E23, 



WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25th, 1908. 



The Thirty-third Annual General Meeting, and the Ordinary 

 Monthly Meeting, were held in the Linnean Hall, Ithaca Road, 

 Elizabeth Bay, on Wednesday evening, March 25th, 1908. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 

 Mr. A. H. S. Lucas, M.A., B.Sc, President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding Annual General Meeting 

 (March 27th, 1907) were read and confirmed. 



The President delivered the Annual Address. 



PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



The thirty-second volume of the Society's Proceedings — the 

 visible fruitage of last year's work — has been completed in good 

 time, and made available to you. On the whole it is a very 

 satisfactor)' contribution to our knowledge of the Natural His- 

 tory of Australia and Oceania, in the broad interpretation of 

 the term we are accustomed to give it ; and I think we may 

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