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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28th, 1908. 



A Special General Meeting, together with the Ordinary 

 Monthly Meeting of the Society were held in the Linnean Hall, 

 Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on Wednesday evening, October 

 28th, 1908. 



SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING. 



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



Business: to consider the advisability 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. 



Before proposing a Resolution, at the request of the Council, 

 Mr. J. H. Campbell referred to the Society's indebtedness to the 

 Members who at different times had acted as Honorary Auditors, 

 whose courtesy and readiness to serve the Society, often at 

 personal inconvenience, had been unfailing. But the number of 

 qualified Members available for selection was limited; and the 

 change proposed was brought forward as a matter of convenience, 

 and one likely to result in the saving of time, and in the simpli- 

 fication of the arrangements for carrying out the annual audit. 



On the motion of Mr. J. H. Campbell, Hon. Treasurer, seconded 

 by Mr. T. Steel, it was resolved to amend Rule xlv., so as to read 



xlv. The accounts of the Treasurer shall be audited annually, 

 a short time before each Annual Meeting, by an Auditur, not a 

 Member of the Society, who shall be a Public Accountant, 

 actively practising his profession, and who shall have been elected 

 at the previous Annual or a Special General Meeting, and the 

 accounts so audited, with the report of the Auditor, shall be laid 

 before the Society at each Annual Meeting. 



And in Rules xlvi. and lix. to substitute the word " Auditor " 

 for " Auditors." 

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