ABSTRACT OP PROCEEDINGS. XL 



The following gentleman was duly elected an ordinary 

 member of the Society: — 



Wright, John Robinson ; Fairfield. 



The certificate of one candidate was read for the third 

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

 time. 



The President announced that the first Science Lecture 

 for the present Session would be delivered on the 30t inst. 

 by Dr. Frank Tidswell, m.b., M.ch., d.p.h., Health Department, 

 on "The Role of Bacteria in the Production of Disease.'' 



Twenty-six volumes, 144 parts, 11 reports, 19 pamphlets 

 and 1 hydrographic chart, total 201 received as donations 

 since the last meeting were laid upon the table and 

 acknowledged. 



THE FOLLOWING PAPERS WERE READ : — 



1. " The Parks of Sydney; some of the problems of control 

 and management, " by J. H. Maiden, f.l.s., Director of 

 Eotanic Gardens and Domains, Sydney ; Officer-in- 

 Charge of the Centennial Park. 



I. General questions : 



a. Introductory. 



6. Sydney Parks,— how vested and controlled. 



c. Sydney Parks, — Statistics. 



d. Park lands should be inalienable. 



II. Police and traffic regulation. 



a. Police. 



b. Traffic regulation. 



III. Roads and paths ; fences ; seats, etc. 



a. Roads and paths. 



b. Fences. 



c. Seats. 



IV. Plantations ; grass, etc. 



a. Plantations. 



6. Grass. 



c. Depasturing of Stock. 



V. Buildings etc., in and abutting on Parks. 



a. Buildings. 

 6. Wharves. 



