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PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 
WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY, 1885. 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 
H. C. Russell, B.A., President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the eisctaling meeting held December 3rd, and 
the special meeting held December 17th, were read and co nfirmed. 
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of the non-payment of the entrance fee and subscription, making 
the total number of members on the 30th April, 1885, 494. The 
oe A A: . A, 
F.R.S., were filled by the election of Sir George Biddell Airy, 
K.C.B., F.R.S., and Professor John Tyndall, D.C.L., F.R.S. 
ti During the past year the Society has received 1,147 volumes 
and pamphlets as donations; in return the Jou rnal has been 
presented to 313 kindred Societies and Institutions, as per accom- 
panying sine de which the following names have been added during _ 3 
the yea :—Accademia Nacional de Ciencias Cordoba, Bir- __ 
ahi Philosophical Society, Bureau of Ethnology, Washington; __ 
Cincinnati Society of Natural History, Société _— ping ae, 
Finlande, Helsingfors ; Société des Sciences, des Ar des 
Lettres du Hainaut, Mons, Belgium. ee 
“The Council has subscribed. to fifty oeiapire journals and | 
nahn and has purchased 476 volumes, amongst the most 
wee of _— are se following complete series from 
commencement :—. can Microscopic Journal, three volumes ; 
Peatiat of of B of Botany th ‘Gira Chemi Society—Journal, twen 
eight; Comptes “Rend, eighty-five 
