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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29th, 1908. 



The Ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Society was held in 

 the Linnean Hall, Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on Wednesday 

 evening, April 29th, 1908. 



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



Mr. W. G. Hall, Public School, Millfield, N. S.W., and Mr. 

 H. M. Giles, Zoological Gardens, South Perth, W.A., were 

 elected Ordinary Members of the Society. 



The President announced that, under the provisions of Rule 

 xxv., the Council had elected Mr. Henry Deane, M. A. F.L.S.,&c, 

 Mr. J. H. Maiden, F.L.S., &c, Dr. T. Storie Dixson, and Mr. 

 Thomas Steel, F.C.S., F.L.S., &c, to be Vice-Presidents for the 

 current Session. 



A letter from the Department of Public Health, Sydney, 

 embodying a request from the Natural History Branch of the 

 British Museum for additional specimens of blood-sucking insects, 

 was read to the Meeting. Contributions should be divided into 

 two portions, and despatched simultaneously, one to The Director, 

 British Museum (Natural History), and the other to The Quick 

 Professor of Biology, New Museums, Cambridge. It was also 

 asked that duplicates of specimens which had already been sent 

 to the British Museum might be sent to the Quick Professor of 

 Biology at Cambridge. The President commended the matter to 

 the notice of Members who were in a position to respond to this 

 deserving appeal for material which would be put to good use; 

 and Dr. Chapman emphasised the importance of addressing 

 contributions sent to Cambridge to "The Quick Professor of 

 Biology." 



