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course, necessarily increase with them. And on looking to the 

 work done during the past year, we have no reason to think that 

 the spirit of the Society has suffered any loss of zeal. The 

 volume of Transactions for 1867 has been completed and dis- 

 tributed to the members (though, I believe, not offered for sale 

 to the public), and .though deficient in a brief abstract of the 

 business of the Committee meetings, and of discussions on 

 papers read at the monthly meetings, which sometimes lead to 

 hitherto unrecorded communications of value and interest ; that 

 volume will show that the Society has not been idle. Nor in the 

 list of papers brought before you in 1868 is there less evidence 

 of vitality. The following is the order in which they were 

 read : — 



List of Papers read before the Eoyal Society of New South 

 "Wales. 1868. 



1. June 3rd — " Opening Address," by G. E. Smalley, Esq. 



2. July 1st — "On the value of Earth Temperatures," by G-. 



E. Smalley, Esq. 



3. August 5th — "On the Improvements effected in Modern 



Museums in Europe and Australia," by Gerard Krefft, Esq. 



4. August 14th, adjourned meeting — " On the Hospital 



Eequirements of Sydney," by Alfred Eoberts, Esq. 



5. September 2nd — " On the Causes and Phenomena of 



Earthquakes, especially in relation to shocks felt in Aus- 

 tralasia," by the Eev. W. B. Clarke. 



6. October 14th — " On the "Water Supply of Sydney," by 



Professor Smith. 



7. November : llth — " On the Distribution of the Australian 



Volutes," by James Cox, Esq., M.D. 



8. December 2nd — " Eesults of Wheat Culture in New South 



Wales during the last ten years," by Christopher Eolleston 

 Esq. "Eemarks on the Dry Earth System of Conservancy," 

 by Edward Bedford, Esq. 



9. December 9th, adjourned meeting — " On Pauperism of 

 New South "Wales — past, present, and future," by Alfred 

 Roberts, Esq. 



