ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. xiii. 



ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, JUNE 5, 1901. 



The General Monthly Meeting of the Society was held at the 

 Society's House, No. 5 Elizabeth-street North, on Wednesday 

 evening, June 5th, 1901. 



G. H. Knibbs, f.r.a.s., in the Chair. 



Thirty-two members and three visitors were present. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 



The certificates of four candidates were read for the second 

 time. 



Sixty-three volumes, 306 Parts, 13 Reports, 89 Pamphlets, two 

 Maps, one Physical Atlas and one Hydrographic Atlas, total 475, 

 received as donations since the last meeting, were laid upon the 

 table and acknowledged. 



The Chairman announced that a series of fourteen stereoscopic 

 slides of the relics of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, brought 

 home in the "Fox" by Captain McClintock, in September 1859, 

 had been presented to the Society by Mr. John Plummer, and 

 were placed on the table for inspection. 



The following illuminated address was also exhibited : — 

 "Royal Society of New South Wales. 

 To The King's Most Excellent Majesty: King Edward VII. 

 May it please your Majesty, 



We your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the President, 

 Council, and Members of the Eoyal Society of New South Wales, at this 

 our first meeting since the lamented death of our beloved and revered 

 Sovereign, Her Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, most respectfully beg 

 leave (in confirmation of our President's telegraphic message sent in 

 January last) to offer to your Majesty and to the members of the Royal 

 Family, an expression of our heartfelt sympathy in the great bereavement 

 which your Majesty, the Eoyal Family, and the Empire have sustained. 



We feel that we have a more than ordinary claim to this sad privilege, 

 inasmuch as the title of our Society was granted to us by Her late Most 

 Gracious Majesty. 



We also desire respectfully to offer to your Majesty, our loyal congratu- 

 lations upon your accession to the Throne, . and our cordial wishes that 

 your Majesty's Reign may be long, happy, and prosperous : also that it 

 may be characterised, like that of Her late Majesty, by marked progress 



