iv. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



Annual Report of the Council for the Year 1912-15 

 (1st May to 30th April.) 



1. Eight ordinary General Meetings and one adjourned 

 ordinary meeting were held. 



2. Twelve meetings of the Council were held. 



3. Twelve papers were read at the ordinary General 

 Meetings. 



4. At the September meeting a discussion took place on 

 " Popularising Forestry in New South Wales." Members 

 of certain public bodies interested in the subject were 

 present by invitation and took part in the proceedings. 



5. Four Popular Science Lectures were given during the 

 year, the titles being as follows : — 



July 18— " Shifts for a Living in the Plant World" by G. P. 



Darnell-Smith, b.sc, f.i.c. 

 August 15 — " The Wonders of the Soil," by Professor Watt, 



M.A., B.Sc. 



September 19 — "Pre-FIistoric Man "by S. A. Smith, M.B.,ch.M. 

 October 17 — " Drought-resisting Plants" by A. G. Hamilton. 



They were all excellently attended and members and the 

 public are under great obligation to the lecturers for their 

 admirable discourses. 



6. On the 14th April an informal meeting of members 

 took place to wish God-speed to Mr. Frank Wild, leader 

 of Dr. Mawson's Western Party, who was proceeding to 

 England, and to welcome other members of the Expedition 

 who had arrived in Sydney. 



7. Fourteen gentlemen have been elected members of the 

 Society during the year. 



8. Ten members were lost to the Society by death or 

 resignation. 



9. One Honorary Member, Dr. 0. J. Martin, f.r.s., 

 Director of the Lister Institute for Preventive Medicine, 



