xxii. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, AUGUST 7, 1901. 



The General Monthly Meeting of the Society was held at the 

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

 evening, August 7th, 1901. 



Professor T. W. Edgeworth David, b.a., f.r.s., v. p., etc., in 

 the Chair. 



Thirty members were present. 



The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 



An apology for non-attendance through illness was received 

 from the President Mr. H. 0. Russell. 



Mr. Robert Little enrolled his name and was introduced. 



The certificates of three candidates were read for the second 

 time, and of six for the first time. 



Thirty-five Volumes, 318 Parts, 22 Reports, 16 Pamphlets, and 

 4 Hydrographic Charts, total 405, received as donations during 

 June and July were laid upon the table and acknowledged. 



The Chairman announced that copies of the Society's Journal, 

 Vol. xxxiv. for 1900, were ready for delivery and could be had 

 by members on application to the Assistant Secretary. 



Also that the Fourth Science Lecture 1901, on "The practical 

 application of Economic Theories, with special reference to the 

 theory of value and laissez-faire," by The Hon. B. R. Wise, k.c, 

 m.l.c, Attorney General and Minister for Justice, N.S. Wales, 

 would be delivered in the Royal Society's House, on Thursday, 

 the 29th August, 1901, at 8 p.m. 



the following papers were read : — 



1. "Notes on some analyses of air from Coal Mines," by A. A. 



Atkinson, Chief Inspector of Collieries and P. B. Guthrie, 



f.c.s., f.i.c. 



The authors gave the analyses of several samples of air from 



the return air-ways at Wallsend and Burwood Collieries, and of 



