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ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, SEPTEMBER 5, 1900. 



The General Monthly Meeting of the Society was held at the 

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

 evening, September 5th, 1900. 



The President, Prof. Liversidge, m.a., ll.d., f.r.s., in the Chair. 

 Thirty members and four visitors were present. 

 The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The certificates of four candidates were read for the second 

 time, and of three for the first time. 



The President made the following announcements, viz.: — 



1. That the Fourth Science Lecture of the Royal Society of New 



South Wales' series for 1900, " On the Building of the Aus- 

 tralian Continent," by Professor T. W. Edgeworth Davjd, 

 b.a., f.g.s., F.R.S., Professor of Geology, University of Sydney, 

 would be given in the Society's House, on Thursday, Sep- 

 tember 27th. 



2. That the Fifth Lecture on " Some phases of Mammalian 



Development," would be given by Professor Wilson, with 

 Lantern Illustrations. 



3. That a Conversazione would be held in March 1901. 



4. That an Annual Dinner would take place in April 1901. 



THE FOLLOWING PAPERS WERE READ : 



1. " The Language, Weapons, and Manufactures of the Aborigines 

 of Port Stephens, New South Wales," with two plates, by 

 W. J. Enright, b.a., (Communicated by R. H. Mathews, l.s., 

 Corres. Memb. Soc. d'Anthrop. de Paris). 



This paper furnished a grammar and comprehensive vocabulary 

 of the language of the Kutthung, one of a number of tribes 

 inhabiting the country around Port Stephens and the Karuah 

 River, New South Wales. Two large plates accompanied the 

 article, containing photographs of the weapons, utensils, etc., in 

 use among the natives of the district dealt with. Mr. R. H. 



