IV. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



A ballot was then taken and the following gentlemen 

 were elected Officers and Members of Council for the 

 current year : — 



President : 



HENRY DEANE. m.a., M. Inst. CE. 



Vice-Presidents : 



Prof. T. P. ANDERSON STUART, 



M.D., LL D. 



H. A. LENEHAN, f.r.a.s. 



F. H. QUAIFE, m.a., m.d. 

 T. W. E. DAVID, b.a., f.b.s. 



Hon. Treasurer: 



D. CARMENT, f.i.a., f.f.a. 



Hon. Secretaries: 



J. H. MAIDEN, f.l.s. | F. B. GUTHRIE, f.i.c., f.c.s. 



Members of Council : 



R. T. BAKER, f.l.s. 



JOSEPH BROOKS, f.r a.s , f.r g.s. 



A. DUCKWORTH, f.r.e.s. 



W. M. HAMLET, f.i.c, f.c.s. 



T. H. HOUGHTON, m. Inst. CB. 



Prof. LIVERSIDGE, ll.d., f.r.s. 

 HENRY G. SMITH, f.c.s. 

 WALTER SPENCER, m.d. 

 H. D. WALSH, B.E., M. Inst. CE. 

 Prof. WARREN, M.Inst. CE..Wh.Sc. 



The following announcements were made : — 



1. That the Society's Journal, Vol. xl., 1906, was in the 

 hands of the binder, and would shortly be ready for 

 delivery. 



2. That the following series of Popular Science Lectures 

 (with perhaps some modifications) would be delivered dur- 

 ing the present session : — 



May 16 — " The Life History of our Food Fishes," by H. C. Dannevig, 



(Superintendent, Fisheries Investigation). 

 June 20 — " Some Polynesian and Melanesian Groups and the People who live 



in them," by Rev. Dr. George Brown. 

 July 18—" The Bi-centenary of Linnaeus' Birth," by J. H. Maiden, f.l.s. 

 August 15 — " Our Health Resorts," by T. Storie Dixson, m.b., cm. (Edin.) 

 September 19 — Further Chapters in Early Australian History, by F. M. 



Bladen, f.r. g.s., f.r.h.s. (Lond.), Principal Librarian, Public 



Library. 

 October 17 — " Regeneration and Recent Biological Experiment ," by Prof. 

 J. T. Wilson, m.b. (Edin.) 



Also a series of four Clarke Memorial Lectures was 

 being arranged by Professor David, if possible. 



3. That the following alterations to the Rules passed at 

 the General Monthly Meeting, December 5th, 1906, would 



