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474 PROCEEDINGS. 
Committee—Dr. Fiaschi, Prof. Anderson-Stuart, u.p., Dr. W. Chisholm, 
Dr. James Graham, Dr. P. Sydney Jones. 
Three Meetings will be held, viz.— June 16th, August 18th and October 20th 
1893, at 815 p.m. 
Section K.—Engineering, 
Chairman—H. Deane, M.A., M. Inst. C.E. 
Secretary—J. A. McDonald, M. Inst. C.E. 
Treasurer—D. M. Maitland. 
Committee—Cecil W. Darley, M. Inst. C.E., Professor Warren, M. Inst. C.E., 
J. W. Grimshaw, M. Inst. C.E., W. F. How, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., 
J. M. Smail, m. Inst. 0.B. 
Meetings held on the Third Wednesday in each month, at 8 p.m.. 
Fifty volumes, four hundred and thirty-three parts, one hundred 
and twenty-eight pamphlets, twenty-four reports, three atlases of 
maps, three hydrographic charts and one photograph received as 
donations since the last meeting, were laid upon the table and 
acknowledged. 
The following letter was read from Prof. Ralph Tate, F.a.s., 
Adelaide University, acknowledging the award of the Clarke 
Medal for 1893 :— 
The University, Adelaide, 
January 10, 18938. 
Gentlemen,—It is with unqualified pleasure that I acknowledge the 
very high honour which you have conferred upon me by the award of 
the Clarke Memorial Medal. 
I care not to disguise the fact that I have been ambitious to win this 
prize, but I had hardly hoped to have been thought worthy of it at so 
early date, as on reviewing my Australian work I recognize only an 
aggregate of small and diverse efforts, but as you are aware, the role of 
ne scientific pioneer, or that of a promoter of scientific investigation in 
an almost unexplored country, is not conducive to a concentration of 
purpose likely to evolve an opus magnum. Therefore, [ will not regard 
your estimable favour in the light of a retiring allowance but as an 
incentive to continue those investigations, to which you have alluded, to 
some measure of completeness as far as time and opportunity will allow. 
Yours faithfully, 
RALPH TATE. 
To the President and Members of Council of the Royal Society of N.S.W. 
