XX11. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



The certificates of two candidates were read for the 

 second time, and of one for the first time. 



The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary 

 members of the Society : — 



Campbell, Alfred W., Medical Practitioner. 183 

 Macquarie-street. 



Wiley, William, Chief Assessor, Land Tax, 'Thurlow,' 

 Neutral Bay. 



The Chairman made the following announcements : — 



1. That the Fourth Popular Science Lecture of the Session 

 would be delivered on Thursday, August 15th, at 8 p.m., 

 on "Our Health Resorts," by T. Storie Dixson, m.b., cm. 

 (Edin.). 



2. That the First Clarke Memorial Lecture of the Session 

 would be delivered on Thursday, August 22nd, at 8 p.m., 

 on iv The Geography of Australia in the Permo-Oarboniferous 

 Period/' by Prof. T. W. E. David, b.a., f.r.s. 



Thirty-five volumes, 198 parts, 33 reports and 8 pamphlets, 

 total 271, received as donations since the previous meeting, 

 were laid upon the table and acknowledged. 



THE FOLLOWING PAPERS WERE READ : 



1. "Note on Copper in Andesite from near Lautoka, Fiji," 



by H. I. Jensen, b. so. (By permission of the Council 

 of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.) 



2. "Analysis of a specimen of Sea-water from Coogee, 



New South Wales," by C. J. White, Caird Scholar, 

 University of Sydney. (Communicated by Professor 



LlVERSLDGE, LL.D., F.R.S.) 



3. "Notes on some Aboriginal Tribes," by R. H. Mathews, 



L.S. 



