ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. xlvil. 
Messrs. L. HARGRAVE and W. J. OLUNIES ROSS were 
appointed Scrutineers, and Mr. D. CARMENT deputed to 
preside at the Ballot Box. 
The certificates of four candidates were read for the 
second time. 
The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary 
members of the Society :— 
ABBOTT, GEORGE HENRY, B.A., M.B., ch. m., “Kylemore,’ 
181 Stanmore Road, Petersham. 
HKSDAILE, HDWARD WILLIAM, Optician, 54 Hunter-st. 
SENDEY, HENRY FRANKLIN, Manager of the Union Bank 
of Australia, Ltd., Sydney, Union Club. 
WEATHERBURN, CHARLES HRNEST, M.A., B.Sc. Sydney, B.A. 
Cantab., 11 Myrtle-street. 
The President made the following announcements :— 
1. That the Sixth Popular Science Lecture of the Session 
on *‘ John Dalton and One Hundred Years of the Atomic 
Theory,” by F. B. GUTHRIE, F.I.C., F.C.S., would be deliverd 
on Thursday, November 19th, at 8 p.m. 
2. That the Monthly Meeting of the Engineering Section 
would be held on Wednesday, November 18th at 8 p.m. 
3. That the Council had decided that the Society’s 
Journal, beginning with Vol. xLit, be published four times 
ayear. For the convenience of those members who desire 
it, the annual volume will be supplied to them as heretofore, 
instead of as in parts. 
Twenty-three volumes, 196 parts, 16 reports, 6 pamphlets 
and 11 maps, total 252, received as donations since the pre- 
vious meeting, were laid upon the table and acknowledged. 
THE FOLLOWING PAPER WAS READ: 
“*Note on Pucherite from West Australia’’ by H. GRIFFITHS, 
Caird Scholar, University of Sydney. (Communicated 
by J. A. SCHOFIELD, Acting Professor of Chemistry, 
University of Sydney). 
