ABSTRACT OP PROCEEDINGS. *XV11. 



SEPTEMBER 6th, 1916. 



The three hundred and eighty-fourth General Monthly 

 Meeting of the Royal Society of New South Wales was 

 held at the Society's House, 5 Elizabeth Street, at 8 p.m. 



Mr. T. H. Houghton, President, in the Ohair. 

 Thirty-four members and five visitors were present. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and 

 confirmed. 



The certificates of fourteen candidates for admission as 

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

 for the first time. 



Mr. G. H. Halligan and Mr. A. G. Hamilton were 

 appointed Scrutineers, and Mr. J. Nangle deputed to pre- 

 side at the Ballot Box. 



The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary 

 members of the Society: — 



Forbes Burn, National Diploma in Agriculture, Goori- 

 anawa Station, Gular, N.S.W. 



Edmund James Coote, Manufacturing Jeweller, 492 



George Street, Sydney. 

 Jacob Robert Lucas Dixon, m.r.c.s., l.r.c.p., The 



University, Sydney. 



Richard Tycho Dalrymple-Hay, Director of Forests, 

 N.S.W., Goodchap Road, Chatswood. 



John Gibson Youll, Editor, "Irrigation Record," Per- 

 petual Trustee Chambers, Hunter Street, Sydney. 



Fifty-eight parts, four volumes and three reports were 

 laid upon the table. 



THE FOLLOWING PAPER WAS READ: 



" Shoreline Studies at Botany Bay," by E. C. Andrews, 



B.A., F.G.S. 



Remarks were made by His Excellency Sir Gerald 

 Strickland, and by His Honor Judge Docker. 



T— December 6. 1916. 



