PROCEEDINGS. 301 
The following gentlemen were duly elected corresponding mem- 
bers of the Society, viz. :— 
Hyde Clarke, Esq., V.-P., Ethnological Institute, London. 
Major-General Sir Edward Ward, K.C.M.G., R.E., London. 
F. B. Miller, Esq., F.C.S., Melbourne Mint. 
And the following as ordinary members, viz. :— 
Bush, Thos. James, Sydney. 
Haege, Hermann, Sydney. 
Hodgson, Wilfred, M.D., Sydney. 
Willis, Rev. Robt. Speir, Manly. 
The certificates of ten new candidates were read for the second 
time, and of five for the first time. 
hundred (400) members only about one hundred had subscribed to 
the Building Fund ; he said it was necessary members should more 
generally subscribe to the fund, and that if they did so the 
removal of the debt should be an easy matter, as the Government 
agreed to grant a pound for every two pounds collected. 
Mr. CLarenpon Stuart asked whether the President was aware 
that one of the candidates presided at the ballot box at the election 7 
of officers and Council on the 12th May last? 
The Cuarrmay in reply stated that it was part of the business 
_ of the meeting supposed to be presided over by the Chairman of 
the €évening, but in order that the other business might go on, a 
member of the Council was deputed to preside in place of the 
Chairman at the ballot, which for convenience had to be conducted 
in the library. He saw no impropriety in a member of the 
Council so presiding, even although the same member happened to 
have been proposed as a candidate. : 
Mr. Srvuarr explained that he did not intend to suggest that 
there was any impropriety in the proceedings, and he did not think 
that the results of the ballot were affected in any way. 
Ninety-one donations were laid upon the table, also a plaster 
bust of Humboldt, presented by Herr Kretschmann. 
Mr. Jony Tespurt, F.R.A.S., then read two papers, sont gh 
On the Longitude of the Sydney Observatory,” and on “The 
Opposition and Magnitudes of Uranus and Jupiter.” i 
Professor Lrverstpcr then read a paper by Mr. E. A. Rennie, 
MA, B.Se., &e., London, “ On the Acids of the Native Currant. 
, A H. ©. Russert, BA. F.RAS, then read a paper on 
Some New Double Stars, with remarks upon several Binaries. 
B Some geological specimens were exhibited by Mr. Makin, of 
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