Xll. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



Thirty-two members and three visitors were present. 



The minutes of the meetings held December 5th, 1906, 

 and May 1st, 1907, were read and confirmed. 



Messrs. J. T. Wilshire and A. Duckworth were 

 appointed Scrutineers, and Mr. H. A. Lenehan deputed to 

 preside at the Ballot Box. 



The certificates of three candidates were read for the 

 third time, of four for the second time, and of five for the 

 first time. 



The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary 

 members of the Society: — 



Burrows Thomas Edw t ard, m. inst. c.b., Civil Engineer, 



Public Works Department, Sydney. 

 Green, W. J., Chairman, Hetton Coal Co., Athenaeum 

 Club. 



Weeden, Stephen Henry, Civil Engineer, 'Kurrowah,' 

 Alexandra-street, Hunter's Hill. 



Boyd, Robert James, b.e. Syd., Draftsman, Fitzroy- 

 street, Burwood. 



Cobham, Allan Blenman, Secretary to the British 

 Astronomical Association, N.S.W. Branch, 'Gar- 

 thowen,' Myahgah Road, Mosman. 



Kaleski, Robert, Agricultural Expert, The Hill, 

 Hoklsworthy, Liverpool. 



Smith, Guy Perceval, b.sc, Analytical and Manufac- 

 turing Chemist, c/o Ammonia Co. of Australia, 

 Sydney. 



The President made the following announcements : — 

 1. That the Society of Chemical Industry invited the 

 members of the Royal Society to attend a meeting on the 

 12th June, at 8 p.m., to hear a paper by Mr. Henry G. 

 Smith, f.cs., on "Recent work on the Eucalypts and 

 what it teaches," with lantern illustrations. 



