176 PROCEEDINGS, 
The following aes were duly elected ordinary Members 
of the Society, v 
Robert Me nt, F.G.8., Royal Mint, Sydney. 
Richard Thomas Hall, Seaton House, Crown-street, Surry 
Hills. 
Francis Lindsay Barker, 130, Pitt-street. 
Francis John Fuller, St. Leonards, North Sho 
Rev. Samuel Wilkinson, Islington Cottage, Aciinelonll 
Newtown. 
James Thomas Wilshire, C.P.S., Scon 
George Moses Alexander, 48, Mubeiirolctiieel 
i Skinner, St. Paul’s College, Darlington. 
The certificates of nineteen new candidates were read. 
One hundred and ninety-four donations were laid upon the 
table. 
e Hon. Treasurer drew attention to the unsatisfactory con- 
dition of the Building Fund, and stated that until the £1,000 
promised had been raised, the grant of £500 voted could not be 
paid by the ene The advisability of securing subscrip- 
mbe 
building would be even profitable as a commercial speculatio 
The Rev. J. E. Tentsox-Woops F.LS., F.G.S., t then ced a 
paper on “ Timber-producing evacts of Tasiianin 
Mr. Jonn Tepsurt, F.R.A.S., then read a } paper on “A Pro- 
posed Correction to the ‘Maburied Longitude of the Sydney 
Observatory.” 
WEDNESDAY, 3 JULY, 1878. 
Ordinary monthly meeting of the Royal Society of New South 
Wales, held in the Soc iety’s. rooms, Elizabeth-street, the Hon. J. 
Smita, C.M.G., M.D., V.P., in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The CHarrMan delivered the felisiing 4 address :—“ It is i mpos- 
sible to go on with the business of this meeting without referring 
to the great loss the Society has recently sustained in the 
removal by death of our senior Vice-President, the Rev. Mr. Clarke. 
A detailed notice of his life and labours will have to be given at 
