ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. XI. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and 

 confirmed. 



The certificates of eight candidates for admission as 

 ordinary members were read: two for the second, and six 

 for the first time. 



Dr. C. Anderson and Mr. Olle were appointed Scru- 

 tineers, and Mr. H. G. Smith deputed to preside at the 

 Ballot Box. 



The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary 

 members of the Society: — 



Harold G. McQuiggin, b.Sc, Demonstrator in Physiology, 



The University, Sydney. 

 John Read, m.a., ph.d., b.Sc, Professor of Organic 

 Chemistry in the University, Sydney. 



The meeting then proceeded to discuss that portion of 

 Dr. Greig-Smith's Presidential Address which relates to 

 Science and Industry. 



The discussion was opened by Dr. R. Greig-Smith who 

 said that Science and Industry have existed so long, each 

 largely going its own way, that probably many of the 

 accustomed habits of thought may have to be given up 

 before a perfect and happy union can be achieved: but 

 what he would specially like to hear spoken about are the 

 means whereby industry can be brought into closer contact 

 with science. He considered the time opportune for indus- 

 trialists and scientists themselves to consider how industry 

 may be benefited, and believed that the elucidation could 

 be found in forming an Industrial Section of this Society. 

 In such a section industrialists and scientists could meet 

 together and informally discuss the recent advances in 

 industry and science : matters brought forward by scientists 

 could be discussed by manufacturers, who would be able to 

 show the direction in which industry could be benefited, 

 and matters brought forward by manufacturers could be 



