148 PROCEEDINGS, 
WEDNESDAY, 5 AUGUST, 1885. 
Professor LtversipGE£, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary members of 
the Society :— 
Goggs, Robert G., M.A. (Cantab), Sydne 
Griffin, Gilderoy Wells (U.S. Consul), dituey: 
verrier, Fran A., B.Sc., Waverley. 
The certificates of four new candidates were read for the second 
times, and of seven for the first time. 
One hundred and two grape of volumes and pamphlets, and 
nine charts were laid upon the 
e Rev. PETER MNP ikeshy, M.A, read a paper on “Some 
causes of the decay of the Australian Forests 
A discussion followed in which the folowing gentlemen took 
part, viz. :—Messrs. C. Rolleston, A. Dean, G. Milner Stephen, 
P. R. Pedley, H. C. Russell, and the Pie dank 
Mr. Russext exhibited some si age of a tree standing a 
little way off the Lane ve Road, ich measures about 
eet in circumference, at a height oe some 30 feet from the 
ound. He thought such a rare relic of a past era in the forest 
growths of Australia should not be lost, and moved that the 
Government be asked to reserve the portion of ground upon which 
it stands. 
Twenty-two members were present. 
WEDNESDAY, 2 SEPTEMBER, 1885. 
Professor LiversipGs, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirm 
The following gentlemen were duly elected sedineay members 
of the Society :— 
Chisholm, William, M.D. (Lond.), Sydney. 
Elsner, F. W., F.R.C.S.L, Sydne 
Ross, Elsey Fairfax, M.D. (Brux), Sydney. 
Roth, Reuter Emerich, M.R.C.S.E., Sydney. 
The certificates of seven new candidates were read for the second 
time, and of three for the first t 
ae hundred and peste yore were laid upon the 
ble. 
Mr. J. P. Josepnson, A.M.1.C.E., read a paper— History of 
Floods in the Hawkesbury River.” 
A number of chromogenic and pei micro-organisms were 
exhibited by W. C. WiLKINson, el a M. on P., Lond. , among 
which were fe following, viz. iz.:—M s produci ing "intense 
red colour; Prodigiosus ; Zeiss j & hotiokwnctis oil immersion, objec- 
microscope ; Micrococcus grown on p 
Be — Wilkinson’s 
