V1. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 
The certificate of one candidate was read for the second 
time, and of nine for the first time. 
The following announcements were made: 
1. That the Council recommended the election of the 
folowing gentlemen as Honorary Members of the 
Society, viz.:— 
Rt. Hon. LORD KELVIN, G.C.V.0., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., &C. 
Rt. Hon. LORD LISTER, 0O.M., F.R.C.S., D.C.L., LL.D., 
F.R.S., &c. : 
The election was carried unanimously. It was likewise 
announced that the Council had also recommended the 
election of Sir GEORGE GABRIEL STOKES, Bart, M.A., D.C.L., 
LL.D., F.R.S., etc., but that that distinguished man had 
recently died. 
2. That the Council had awarded the Clarke Memorial 
Medal to F. MANSON BAILEY, F.L.S., Colonial Botanist — 
of Queensland. 
3. That the Society’s Journal for 1902 was in the hands of 
the binder and would be delivered to members shortly. 
Advance copies were laid upon the table. 
One hundred and one volumes, 642 parts, 117 reports, 
119 pamphlets, and 5 chronographical tables, total 984, 
received as donations since the last meeting were laid 
upon the table and acknowledged. 
The following letters were read: 
Office of Colonial Botanist, 
| Brisbane, 19th December, 1902. 
To the President and Council of the Royal Society of N.S, Wales. 
Gentlemen,—lI have very great pleasure in acknowledging the receipt 
of your letter and the accompanying medal. You have conferred upon 
me a very great honor in presenting me with the Clarke Medal, and I feel 
at aloss for words to sufficiently thank you for paying me so great a 
compliment. 
Yours very truly, 
F. MANSON BAILEY. 
