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125° 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY, 1884. 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 
Hon. Prof. Surru, C.M.G., President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the meeting held on December 5th, 1883, were 
read and confirmed. 
The Annual Report of the Council was then read, as follows :— 
‘‘In presenting its Annual Report, the Council has the pleasure 
to state that the Society's affairs continue to steadily prosper. 
The number of new members elected during the year was thirty, 
the Society lost by death six members, by resignation two, ten had 
_ to be struck off the roll for the non-payment of annual subscription, 
the election of three new members was cancelled on account of non- 
pamphlets as donations ; in return it has presented 309 volumes 
to various kindred Societies, as per accompanying list, to which the 
following names have been added during the year, viz :—The 
Royal Agricultural Society of England, the Institute of Chemis- 
try, London ; the Bristol Naturalists’ Society, and the Editor of 
‘Science,’ Cambridge, Mass, U.S.A. 
‘The Council has subscribed to fifty scientific journals and publi- 
cations, and has purchased 588 volumes, am i 
Quekett Microscopical Club, Journal ; Science Gossip ; Telegraphic 
Journal ; Photographic Society, Journal ; Geological Society of 
