XXX11 PROCEEDINGS. 



It was then proposed by Mr. James Norton, seconded by Mr. 

 Vessey, and carried : — That the following gentlemen be elected 

 Officers of the Society for the current year, viz. : — 



VICE-PRESIDENTS: 



Rev. W. B. CLARKE, M.A., F.GhS. 



TnE Honorable JOHN SMITH, M.L.C., M.D. 



HONORARY TREASURER: 



Rev. WILLIAM SCOTT, M.A. 



HONORARY SECRETARIES: 



Professor LIVERSIDGE. Dr. LEIBIUS. 



COUNCIL: 



E. C. CRACKNELL, Esq. CHRIS. ROLLESTON, Esq. 



JAMES MANNING-, Esq. H. C. RUSSELL, Esq , B.A., F.R.A.S. 



CHARLES MOORE, Esq., E.L.S. H. G. A. WRIGHT, Esq., M.R.C.S. 



The following donations were laid upon the table by the 

 Chairman, viz. : — 



" Victorian Tear Book," containing a digest of the Statistics 

 of the Colony for the year 1873, by Henry Haylyn 

 Hayter, Government Statist of Yictoria. 



" Results of Observations in Meteorology and Terrestrial Mag- 

 netism," taken at the Melbourne Observatory during the 

 year 1872, together with Abstracts from Meteorological 

 Observations obtained at various localities in Victoria, 

 under the superintendence of Eobert L. J. Ellery, 

 Government Astronomer. — Vol. I. 



" Statistics of the Colony of Victoria," from the Government 

 Statist. 



" Ninth Annual Eeport of the Colonial Museum and Labora- 

 tory," from the Colonial Museum, "Wellington. 



The Anniversary Address by the Eev. "W. 13. Clarke, Senior 

 Vice-President, was then read by Mr. Chris. Eolleston, and 

 Professor Liversidge. 



Mr. Eolleston moved : — That the thanks of the Society be 

 given to the Eev. W. B. Clarke for his valuable address. 



Mr. Bensttsan said, that in rising to second the vote of thanks 

 to the Eev. W. B. Clarke for his able and interesting address, he 

 did so with more than ordinary pleasure ; he was glad to see the 

 claims of Mons. Gamier so fully vindicated, partly because it 

 was his due, but principally because it afforded him an oppor- 

 tunity of explaining how it was that his absent friend Mr. 

 Vale and himself respectively, had become wrongfully possessed 

 of the prestige of being the first to determine the character 

 of the valuable discoveries of nickel and chromate of iron 

 in New Caledonia. He might mention, that for some time 



