286 PROCEEDINGS. 
WEDNESDAY, 7 JULY, 1886, 
H. C. Russert, B.A., F.R.A.S., hoch in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 3 
The following gentlemen were duly elected weainaty members 
of the Society :— 
Brown, David, ee hk Darling River. 
Grut, Percival de Jers 
Heydon, L. ¥F., M.L. ‘< Sydney, 
MacFarlane, Edward, Bou rke. 
Morgan, Dr. Edw ard, Mount Victoria. 
Provis, John, Sydney. 
Smith, Walter comes A.M.I.C.E., Sydne 
The certificates of four n w candidates were aed for the second 
time, and of seven for the first time. 
One hundred and seventy-two donations of books, periodicals, 
&c., were laid upon the table. 
The CHATRMAN sctuasitcd that the Sanitary Section had been 
a and that the following Committeemen had b 
elected 
ston Section. —Chairman: Sir Alfred Roberts. Secre- 
R. E. Roth, M.R.GS.E. Committee: Dr. 
Aan buvet Thompson, W. A. Dixon, F.CS, » ee 
sieve Dr. Fairfax Ross, Dr. F. H. Quaife, J. B. 
Henson, C.E. 
A paper by otis Ferpivanp von Mvetier, K.C.M.G., 
.R.S., &e.—“ Further additions to the Census of the Genera of 
os hitherto known as Indigenous to Australia” was taken as 
rea 
a. ik feel read a paper by Mr. H. F. Mapsen—“ Notes on 
the process of polishing and figuring 18-inch Glass Specula by 
hand, and experiments with Flat. Surfaces.” 
Some remarks were made by Mr. H. A. Lenehan and the 
Chairman. 
Forty-three diagrams and twenty-five coloured lithographic 
plates representing * views of the Straits of Sunda, — the neigh: 
bourhood of the eruption of Krakatao, were exhibited ant : 
described by Mr. H. C. Russenx, B.A., F.R.A.S. 
_ About twenty-five members were present. 
WEDNESDAY, 4 AUGUST, 1886. 
C. Rotieston, C.M.G., President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The Cuairman announced with regret the death of the io 
_ Rev. Peter MacPherson, M.A., who had been a life member @ 
the Society for eight years, and who had contributed so 
papers. a 
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