ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS 
Aopal Society of Alew South Bales. 
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MAY ist, 1918. 
The Annual Meeting, being the three hundred and ninety- 
sixth General Monthly Meeting of the Society, was held at 
the Society’s House, 5 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, at 8 p.m. 
_Dr. J. B. CLELAND, President, in the Chair. 
Fifty-one members and one visitor were present. 
The minutes of the General Monthly Meeting of the 5th 
December, 1917, were read and confirmed. 
The certificates of eleven candidates for admission as 
ordinary members were read: one for the second and ten 
for the first time. 
Mr. H. CHEEL and Mr. I. ORMSBY were appointed Scru- 
tineers, and Mr. C. HEDLEY deputed to preside at the 
Ballot Box. 
The following gentleman was duly elected an ordinary 
member of the Society :— 
CLYDE DOUGLAS GILLIES, M.Sc., Assistant Lecturer in 
Biology, the University, Brisbane. 
The following gentleman was duly elected an Honorary 
Member of the Society:— 
CHARLES CHILTON, M.A., D.Sc., etc., Professor of Biology 
at Canterbury College: Christchurch, New Zealand. 
The Annual Financial Statement for the year ended 31st 
March, 1918, was submitted to members, and, on the 
