ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. V. 



be submitted for confirmation this evening, it being the 



Annual General Meeting : — 

 i. By Prof. T. P. Anderson Stuart, m.d., ll.d., that 

 Rule VIII. be altered to read as follows: — " The cer- 

 tificates shall be read at the two ordinary General 

 Meetings of the Society, etc., instead of three." 

 Carried. 



ii. By Mr. T. H. Houghton, seconded by Mr. H. D. Walsh, 

 that Library Rule V. be omitted. Carried. 



iii. By Mr. R. H. Mathews, seconded by Mr. W. J. 

 MacDonnell, that Rule XXVI. be altered with the 

 view to substituting March for May for the inaugural 

 meeting of the Session. Not carried. 



4. The President having referred with deep sympathy to 

 the death of Mr. H. C. Russell, the following resolutions 

 moved by Mr. H. A. Lenehan, seconded by Prof. Liver- 

 sidge, and supported by Mr. G. D. Hirst, were carried: — 

 i. The Members of the Royal Society of New South 

 Wales take this, the first opportunity to express their 

 deep regret at the loss which the Society has sustained 

 by the death, on February 22nd last, of their late 

 Vice-President, and former President and Hon. 

 Treasurer, Mr. Henry Chamberlain Russell, b.a., 

 c.m.g., f.r.s., etc., Government Astronomer of N. S. 

 Wales, and to place on record their full appreciation 

 of his many and lifelong services in promoting the 

 aims and objects of this Society and for the advance- 

 ment of science in Australia. 



ii. That the above resolution be forwarded to the late 

 Mr. Russell's family, as an expression of the Society's 

 deep sympathy with them in their bereavement. 

 Mr. Russell was elected a member of the Society in 

 1864, a member of the Council in 1871, and he has practi- 

 cally been a member of the Council ever since. During 



