iv. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 
HECTOR, Sir JAMES, elected 1875. 
KELVIN, Right Hon. WILLIAM THOMSON, Lord, elected 
1903. " 
Ordinary Members: 
Haycrort, J. I., elected 1890. 
JENKINSON. H. H., elected 1903. 
LENEHAN, H. A., elected 1874. 
RAMSAY, DAVID, elected 1904. 
ROLLESTON, J. C., elected 1885. 
SMITH, WALTER A., elected 1886. 
WooLrRycH, F. B. W., elected 1876. 
Books and periodicals have been purchased at a cost of 
£76 10s. 2d., binding books amounted to £22 10s. 11d., 
making the sum expended upon the Library £991s.1d. A 
large number of unbound books and periodicals have been 
and are being covered in a cheap style of binding which 
will make them accessible to the members. 
The number of Institutions on the Exchange List is 425 
and the publications received in exchange for the Society’s 
Journal and Proceedings during the past year were:—294 
volumes, 2,217 parts, 155 reports, 106 pamphlets, and 21 
maps, total 2,793. 
During the past year the Society held 8 meetings, at 
which 20 papers were read; the average attendance of 
members was 33°2 and of visitors 1°7. 
The Engineering Section held 7 meetings at which 2 
papers were read and discussed. | 
POPULAR SCIENCE LECTURES. 
A series of Popular Science Lectures, illustrated by 
lantern slides, was delivered during 1907 at the Society’s 
House, at 8 p.m., as follows:— 
May 16—“The Life History of our Food Fishes,” by H. C. 
DanneEvic, (Superintendent, Fisheries Investigation.) 
