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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30th, 1908. 



The Ordinary Monthly Meeting of the Society was held in 

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

 evening, September 30th, 1908. 



Mr. T. Steel, F.L.S., F.C.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. John George Hunter, Junior Demonstrator in Biology, 

 University of Sydney, was elected an Ordinary Member of the 



Society. 



The Chairman gave notice of a Special General Meeting to be 

 held on Wednesday, 28th October, at 8 o'clock, before the 

 appointed Ordinary Monthly Meeting on the same date. Business: 

 to consider the desirability of amending Rules xlv., xlvi., and lix., 

 so as to allow of the annual audit of the Society's accounts being 

 carried out by a Public Accountant, not a Member of the Society, 

 actively practising his profession. 



A letter from Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, Broadstone, England, 

 thanking the Society for its congratulations on the occasion of 

 the fiftieth anniversary of the Meeting of the Linnean Society of 

 London at which the papers by Darwin and Wallace, setting 

 forth the main outlines of the Theory of Natural Selection, were 

 presented, was read from the Chair. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting, amounting to 12 Vols, 83 Parts or Nos., 46 

 Bulletins, 8 Reports, and 24 Pamphlets, received from 62 Societies, 

 <fec, were laid upon the table. 



