ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 1X. 
JUNE Oth, 1918. 
The three hundred and ninety-seventh General Monthly 
Meeting was held at the Society’s House, 5 Hlizabeth 
Street, at 8 p.m. 
Mr. W.S. Dun, President, in the Chair. 
Twenty-seven members and one visitor were present. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and 
confirmed. 
The certificates of eleven candidates for admission as 
ordinary members were read: ten for the second, and one 
for the first time. 
Mr. A. B. Hecror and Mr. A. D. OLLE were appointed 
Scrutineers, and Professor C. H. FAwsitT deputed to preside 
at the Ballot Box. 
The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary 
members of the Society: —GEORGE HysLop ADAM, Chemist, 
Hlectric Light Department, City Council, Sydney; ROBERT 
HousTun BarRR, Mechanical Engineer, Australasia Cham- 
bers, 2 Martin Place, Sydney; Epwarp ELLiort, Chemical 
Engineer, c/o Reckitts’ (Oversea) Limited, Bourke Street, 
Redfern; ALEXANDER RICHARD RoBy HASSAN, Merchant, 
c/o Pacific Commercial Company, Pomeroy House, York 
Street, Sydney; MorGAN JONES JOHNS, M.I.M.E., Chief 
Engineer of the Mount Morgan Company, Mount Morgan, 
Queensland; JAMES MATTHEW PETRIE, D.Sc.,F.1I.C., Research 
Fellow of the Linnean Society in Bio-chemistry, the Uni- 
versity, Sydney; HENRY PRIESTLEY, B.Sc.,M.D.,Ch M., Lecturer 
in Physiology in the University of Sydney; FREDERICK 
WILLIAM STEEL, Chemical Works Manager, c/o General 
Chemical Company Ld., Parramatta Road, Auburn, N.S.W.; 
EDWARD NAUNTON WARD, Superintendent, Botanic Gardens, 
Sydney; EDMOND AUNGER WHITE, Manager of Hlectrolytic 
Refining and Smelting Company of Australia Ltd., Port 
Kembla, N.S.W. 
