PROCEEDINGS. UE 
Committee—Messrs. T. M. Brindley, G. D. Hirst, P. R. Pedley, T. F. 
Wiesener. Dr. H. G. A. Wright. 
Meetings held on the Second Monday in each month at 8 p.m. 
Section H.—Medical, 
Chairman—Dr. Fiaschi. 
Secretaries—Dr. Hull and Dr. Huxtable. 
Committee—Dr. W. Chisholm, Dr. James Graham, Dr. W. H. HUT 
Prof. Anderson-Stuart, m.p., Dr. Rennie, Dr. MacCormick. 
Meetings held on the Third Friday in each month, at 8-15 p.m. 
Section K.— civil and Mechanical Engineering. 
Chairman—Cecil Darley, Mm. Inst. C.E. 
Secretary—J. A. McDonald, m. Inst. C.5. 
Committee—H. Deane, M. Inst. c.E., J. M. Smail, M. Inst.c.E., H. G. 
McKinney, M. Inst. C.E., D. M. Maitland, Ls. 
Meetings held on the Third Wednesday in each month, at 8 p.m. 
One hundred and sixteen volumes, six hundred and twenty-one 
parts, one hundred and forty-one pamphlets, two atlases and 
fifteen loose Meteorological charts received as donations since the 
last meeting were laid upon the table and acknowledged. 
The following letter was read from Prof. W. T. Thiselton Dyer, 
C.M.G., M.A., B.Sc. F.R.S., Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew :— 
Royal Gardens, Kew. 
8th February, 1892. 
Dear Sir,—It was with mingled suprise and pleasure that I received 
your very kind letter of 23rd December, informing me that the Council 
of the Royal Society of New South Wales had done me the very signal 
honour of conferring upon me the Clarke Memorial Medal (which came 
safely into my hands at the same time). 
I cannot but feel, however, that this distinction is one which has been 
earned rather by the Institution over which I have the honour to preside 
than by any merit of my own. That, however, rather enhances than 
diminishes the satisfaction which I derive from it. 
The connection between Kew and the Australian Colonies has always 
been peculiarly close; and I observe that this is no less than the third 
occasion upon which it has been recognised by your Society. That con- 
nection began in the last century with Sir Joseph Banks, who, though 
not actually connected in any official way with Kew, was virtually its 
scientific director ; it was resumed by the splendid work on the elucidation 
of the Australian flora of my immediate predecessor in office, Sir Joseph 
Hooker ; and it culminated in the preparation at Kew, by Mr. Bentham 
