TRANSACTIONS 



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Opening Address to the Royal Society, delivered at its first meeting, 

 3rd June, 1868, by G. B. Smalley, Esq., B.A., F.R.A.S., Vice- 

 President. 



My Loed, Ladies and Gentlemen, — Although this is the com- 

 mencement of 'the second session of the Royal Society of New 

 South Wales, yet it is the first occasion since the present title 

 has been granted to us that we have had the pleasure of meeting, 

 in a social manner, so many who, without being members of the 

 society, are, we hope, not uninterested in its success and progress. 



It is the ordinary custom in such societies as this, for one of 

 its principal officers to deliver an address at the opening meeting 

 of each session. 



This year that duty has devolved upon myself, and I could most 

 sincerely have wished that it had been undertaken by some one 

 more fitted for the occasion. But the society having done me the 

 honour to elect me as one of their Vice-Presidents, and my re- 

 spected friend and colleague, the senior Yice- President desiring 

 to be relieved from the duty of delivering the address in two suc- 



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