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The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary members 
of the Society :— 
Edmunds, Perey James, Sydney. 
Holmes, Spencer ern Allandale, Hunter River. 
Quayle, Edwin, Glebe Poin 
Threlfall, Richard, B.A. (Cantab, ), Professor of Physics, 
Sydney Universi ty. 
The certificates of seven ris candidates were read for the second 
time, and of five for the first time. 
The CHairMan announced that the Council proposed to hold a 
Conversazione in the a Hall of the University, on the 6th 
October next. 
Sixty-one donations of Soke and periodicals were laid upon the 
le. 
The following letter was read from Dr. L. G. De Koninek, so 
Liége, acknowledging the award of the Clarke Memorial Medal 
Professor Liv ersidge, . boom of th 
Roy ciety of New South Wales. 
Monsieur ~ hee re be iége, 1 1886. 
I have the hono * to acuewioiee the receipt *. i clarke rs 
conferred byt the Society on me in recognition of my 1 
scientific rches, especially those which have oe for Se object ~ 
study of the ‘carboniferous f of Belgium, and the palaeozoic fossils of 
ountry. 
more than flattered in receiving that distinction, and a 
ame associated with those eminent naturalists upon whom this 
is, moreover, a precious souvenir of one who so kindly supplied me 
my labours 
“oon a the homage of my most distinguished sentiments. 
ece e€ 
. Dr. L. G. pe KONINCK. 
Mr. 8. Hersert Cox, F.C.S., PGS. read a paper on “The 
Tin Deposits of New South Wales.’ 
fter some remarks upon the same by Professor ge erg 
the PresipENT, on behalf of the Society, presente ‘ox witl 
the Society’s medal, which had been awarded to him for 
valuable paper 
On the motion of the Rev. R. Collie, F.LS., a paper by the 
late Rev. Peter MacPuerson, M.A., “On the ‘Aboriginal names 
= Rivers in Australia, philologically ideal ” was taken a 
ead, 
pale discussion =o the snbject of the paper took place, in which 
the following ote emen took part, viz.:—Rev. Robert Collie, 
Sir Roberts, Messrs. J. F Mea Th. De: Biers an 
J. —— Jones. 
