ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. xxi. 



ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, AUGUST 2, 1905. 



The General Monthly Meeting of the Society was held 

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

 Wednesday evening, August 2nd, 1905. 



H. A. Lenehan, f.r.a.s., President, in the Chair. 

 Twenty-five members were present. 

 The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and 

 confirmed. 



Mr. George Hooper enrolled his name and was intro- 

 duced. 



Messrs. W. J. Olunies Ross and P. B. Guthrie were 

 appointed Scrutineers, and Mr. W. M. Hamlet deputed to 

 preside at the Ballot Box. 



The certificates of four candidates were read for the third 

 time, of one for the second time, and of one for the first 

 time. 



The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary 

 members of the Society : — 



Blakemore, George Henry, General Manager for the 

 Great Cobar Mining Syndicate, Lithgow. 



Hoskins, George I., Engineer, Burwood Road, Burwood. 



Miller, James Edward, Cobar. 



Scott, Ernest Kilburn, Electrical Engineer, The 

 University, Sydney. 



The Chairman announced (1) that the Society's Journal, 

 Vol. xxxviii., for 1904 was in the binder's hands and would 

 be distributed as speedily as possible. (2) That the Second 

 Popular Science Lecture 1905, on "The Monotremes and 

 the Origin of Mammals," (illustrated by lantern slides) by 

 J. P. Hill, txsc., f.l.s., Lecturer in Embryology etc., Sydney 

 University, would be delivered on Friday, 18th August at 

 8 p.m. 



