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PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY, 1878. 
AnnvuaL General Meeting of the Royal Society of New South 
Wales, held in the Society’s Rooms, Elizabeth-street. 
Mr. Christopher Rolleston, V.P., in the chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary members of 
the Society :— 
Samuel T. Knaggs, M.D., Newcastle, 
Frederick Griffiths, Macquarie-street. 
The certificates of eight new candidates were read. 
One hundred and sixty-one donations were laid upon the table. 
The Annual Report of the Council was then read :— 
“The Council, in bringing before the Society their annual 
iciadiedn at the eons poeer ik oo 
“At the beginning of last session of 1877 there were 298 
members on the rolls, sixty-two new members were elected during 
the session closed in December last, while three members died and 
_ ten resigned, leaving at the opening of the present session of 1878 
347 members, besides fourteen honorary ee 
“This stead increase in the number of members warrants the 
hope on the part of the Council that the are interest taken in 
the ‘Scientific work which this Society is intended to. _foster 
© num active members who have taken p 
of matters of scientific interest before the Soe 
either at its general monthl tings, or at the monthly 
ional meetings, has been comparativ y small, d 
acquisition of a few more ‘working bees’ would be welcomed by 
every one = has the welfare of the Society and of the Colony at 
large at h 
