ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. X11K 



The minutes of the General Monthly Meeting of 5th July, 

 1916, were read and confirmed. 



The certificates of eleven candidates for admission as 

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

 for the first time. 



Mr. G. Hooper and Mr. A. J. Sach were appointed 

 Scrutineers, and Mr. C. A. Sussmilch deputed to preside 

 at the Ballot Box. 



The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary 

 members of the Society: — 

 William John Allen, Government Fruit Expert and 



Irrigationist, 'Oriel,' The Boulevard, Strathfield. 

 Stephen Jason Johnston, b.a., d.Sc, Lecturer and 



Demonstrator in Zoology, The University, Sydney. 

 Paul Rene Loubet, m.d., b.Sc, 17 Oastlereagh Street. 

 Robin John Tillyard, m.a., b.Sc., f.e.s., Macleay Research 



Fellow Linnean Society of N.S.W., 'Kuranda,' Mount 



Errington, Hornsby, N.S.W. 

 George V alder, j.p., Under Secretary and Director, 



Department of Agriculture, Sydney. 

 Robert Alexander Warden, President, Government 



Savings Bank of New South Wales, Moore Street. 



The President announced that a Popular Science Lecture 

 entitled "The Debt of Agriculture to Science," would be 

 delivered by Professor R. D. Watt, on 17th of August. 



Eight volumes, one hundred and two parts and eleven 

 reports were laid upon the table. 



THE FOLLOWING PAPERS WERE READ: 



1. "Acacia Seedlings," Part II, by R. H. Oambage, f.l.s. 



Remarks were made by Mr. Maiden, Mr. Andrews, Dr. 

 Harker and Mr. Cheel. 



2. "Napier's Logarithms: Remarks supplementary to pre- 



vious paper, entitled 'The Discovery of Logarithms by 

 Napier of Merchiston'," by Professor H. S. Oarslaw. 



