ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. TZ 
LL.D., Chief Justice of New South Wales and Chancellor of 
the University of Sydney, The Hon. Sir Joseph Carruthers, 
K.C.M.G., M.L.C., LL.D., His Honour Judge EK. B. Docker, M.A., 
and the Hon. J. Lane Mullins, M.A., M.L.C: 
The classification and indexing of the large collection of 
German University dissertations occupied a considerable 
amount of time during the year, but the work is now com- 
pleted and the set, comprising about 80 volumes, is ready 
for binding. 
In December last, Mr. J. H. Maiden generously presented 
to the library Parts 1 to 13 (1824-1849) of Augustin De 
Candolle’s ‘‘Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vege- 
tabilis’’ together with volumes 1 to 4o0f Alphonse and 
Anne De Candolle’s ‘**Monographiz Phanerogamarum.”’ 
A complete set of the Prodromus comprises 17 parts, and 
it is suggested that the Society should endeavour to secure 
the remaining four parts, together with Buek’s Index to 
the Prodromus (4 vols.), and so complete this famous work 
on systematic botany. If the remaining five volumes of 
the Monographize could also be obtained it would much 
enhance the value of the botany section of the library. 
The number of unbound volumes of periodicals is being 
steadily reduced, 288 volumes being bound during the year 
at a cost of £91/16/0, and a further sum of £100 has been 
set aside for the continuation of binding during the current 
year. 
The Commonwealth Government having during the year 
1921, removed restrictions on the receipt of scientific books 
from enemy countries, invitations to resume exchanges 
were sent from the Society to 72 German and Austrian 
Scientific Institutions on the exchange list before the war. 
Up to date answers have been received from twenty-eight 
societies, twenty-six have accepted the invitation, while 
