ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. XXV. 
ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, AUGUST 5, 1903. 
The General Monthly Meeting of the Society was held 
at the Society’s House, No. 5 Hlizabeth-street North, on 
Wednesday evening, August 5th, 1903. 
F. B. GUTHRIE, F.I.C., F.C.S., President, in the Chair. 
Forty members and five visitors were present. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and 
confirmed. 
Mr. F. W. BAYLY enrolled his name and was introduced. 
Messrs. G. R. COWDERY and T. H. HOUGHTON were 
appointed Scrutineers, and Mr.8S. H. BARRACLOUGH deputed 
to preside at the Ballot Box. 
The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary 
members of the Society:— 
Bruck, L., 15 Castlereagh Street. 
Jenkinson, Edward H., 15 Macquarie Place. 
The certificates of two candidates were read for the third 
time, of three for the second time, and of four for the first 
time. 
Twenty-seven volumes, 224 parts, 6 reports and 6 pam- 
phlets, total 263, received as donations since the last 
meeting were laid upon the table and acknowledged. 
The President announced that a Conversazione would be 
held in the Great Hall of the University, on Thursday, 
August 27th at 8°30 p.m. 
He also referred to the death of Mr. F. LLoyp, B.A., LL.B., 
Curator of the Nicholson Museum, Sydney University, who 
was to have delivered the third Science Lecture this Session 
on ‘‘Ancient Italian Life.” 
The following letter was received from LORD KELVIN, 
_acknowledging his election as an Honorary Member of the 
‘Society :-— 
c—Aug 5, 1903 
