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PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
- WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY, 1881. 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 
Hon. Professor Surrn, C.M.G., President, in the Chair. 
“dout seventy members were present. : 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
2 The Annual Report of the Council was then read, as follows :— 
Sp presenting their Annual Report, the Council are happy to 
‘ _ the affairs of the Society are in a prosperous condition. 
_ * number of new members elected during the year was thirty- 
Z — on the 30th April, 1881, 452. : 
Dalton member was elected during the year, Sir J oseph 
Boal Hooker, K.C.8.L, C.B., M.D., F-R.S., Director of the 
Ja “ardens, Kew, thus completing the limited number, twenty. 
gentlemen were elected corresponding members, 
: Majong V.P., Ethnological Institution, London ; 
of pe General Sir Edward Ward, K.C.MG., R.E., formerly one. 
Honorary Secretaries of the Society, and Mr. F. B. Miller, 
Te of ‘the Melbourne Mint: making the total number of 
Was unanimously resolved to award the Clarke Medal for 
