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copies Mining Report for 1876. From the Commissioner for 
South Wales. From the President of the Council of Education 
50 copies of the Report of the Council of Education for 1876.” 
The following letter frcm the Colonial Secretary was read :— 
The Principal Under Secretary to Professor Iasi 
Colonial “ie ry’s Office, 
Sir, Sydne 7 Sept tember, 1877. 
In acknowledging the receipt of your seve id fthe 30th of last month, 
enclosing a printed paper setting forth the man which the publications 
supplied by the Government to the Royal Soc eng of Rew South si les have 
been distributed, I 3 any iy by - Colonial Secretary to express to you 
his approval of what has been done and the se ee neere Page tick he has 
received this safe a ye distribution of ss nil pu — 
have, 
HENRY HALLORAN. 
Professor Liversimce announced that the Journal of the 
Society for 1876 had been distributed to all members entitled to 
it for the current year 
The Rev. J. E. ‘Tzv1sox-Woops, F.G.S., F.R.G. S., then read 
his paper on “ ee, Paleontological Evidence of Australian 
WEDNESDAY, 3 OCTOBER, 1877. 
Ordinary monthly meeting of the Royal Society of New 
South Wales, held in the Society’s pi ae ‘Elizabeth-street 
CHRISTOPHER Routes’ V.-P., in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were agit and confirmed. 
The id Bawa were duly elected ordinary members 
of the Socie 
William Bavard Warren, M.D., M.R.C.S., 26, College-street, 
dne 
Rey. OT F. ‘Gar sey, St. James’s Parsonage, Sydney. - 
Joseph Palmer "Abbott, Murrurundi. 
The certificates of five new candidates were read. 
Pre dere ae were laid upon the table. : 
“ Ctenacanthus, a Spine of Hybodus,” by Mr. W. 
J. Barkas, MLR.C ».8., was taken as rea ad 
The Hon. J. chem, CM.G., MLD. then read his paper on 
“A System of carte adapted to Atte to Students certain 
Electrical Operat 
The following gage on “ Guano oe other Phosphatic 
Deposits, Maldon Island,” and “Notes on the Meteorology, 
atural History, &c., of a Guano Island,” were then read by Mr. 
W. A. Drxoy, F.C.S 
