XVill. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 
ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, JULY 1, 1903. 
The General Monthly Meeting of the Society was held 
at the Society’s House, No. 5 Elizabeth-street North, on 
Wednesday evening, July 1st, 1903. 
¥. B. GUTHRIE, F.1.C., F.C.S., President, in the Chair. 
Forty-six members and four visitors were present. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and 
confirmed. 
Messrs. J. A. SCHOFIELD and OC. J. McMASTER were 
appointed Scrutineers, and Mr. Henry G. SMITH deputed 
to preside at the Ballot Box. 
The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary 
members of the Society:— 
Bayly, Francis William, Royal Mint, Sydney. 
Oarslaw, Prof. H.S8., mwa.,p.se, University of Sydney. 
Cooper, D. J., M.A., Superintendent of Technical 
Kducation. 
McLaughlin, John, 70 Pitt Street. 
Minell, William Percival, 163 Pitt Street. 
Owen, Rev. H., The Vicarage, Hunter’s Hill. 
Rooke, Thomas, Assoe. M. Inst. 0.E., Town Hall, Sydney. 
Vonwiller, Oscar U., B.sc., University of Sydney. 
Walsh, Fred., ‘‘Walworth,’’ Park Road. 
The certificates of nine candidates were read for the third 
time, of two for the second time, and of three for the first 
time. 
Twenty-eight volumes, 149 parts, 11 reports, 16 pamph- 
lets, 1 geographical map, and 1 geological chart, total 206, 
received as donations since the last meeting were laid upon 
the table and acknowledged. 
The President announced that the Third Science Lecture 
for the present Session would be delivered on the 23rd July 
