IV. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



two honorary members, and two ordinary members, by 

 death ; twelve ordinary members have been elected and 

 nine have resigned, leaving a total of 316 members on the 

 roll at the end of April 1911. This total does not include 

 the fourteen honorary members. The losses by death were: 

 Honorary Members'. 



Sir William Huggins, Upper Tulse Hill, London. 



Stanislao Cannizaro, Reale Universita, Rome. 

 Ordinary Members : 



Dr. Walter Spencer, elected 1896. 



W. J. MacDonnell, elected 1868. 



Books and periodicals have been purchased at a cost of 

 £41 13s. 7d. A great number of unbound books and 

 periodicals are about to be bound in a cheap style of binding 

 in order to make them accessible to the members. 



The number of Institutions on the exchange list is 429 r 

 and the publications received in exchange for the Society's 

 Journal and Proceedings during the year comprise 222 

 volumes, 1815 parts, 161 reports, 282 pamphlets, 20 maps; 

 total 2500. 



During the past year the Society held eight meetings, at 

 which thirty-two papers were read, the average attendance 

 of the members being thirty-one, and of the visitors three* 



A series of Popular Science Lectures, illustrated by 

 lantern slides or diagrams, was delivered during the year 

 as follows : — 



June 16 — "The Velocity of Chemical Changes" by Professor 



Fawsttt, d. Sc, Ph.D., illustrated by experiments. 

 July 21 — "Early Blue Mountain Exploration, Barallier's 



furthest West" by R. H. Cambage, l.s., f.l.s. 

 August 18 — " The Mountains of New South Wales, their 



Nature and Origin" by C. A. Sussmilch, f.g.s. 

 September 15 — " Modern Methods of Recording Earthquakes" 



by Rev. E. F. Pigot, b.a., m.b., s.j. 



