98 PROCEEDINGS. 



WEDNESDAY, 6th JUNE, 1888. 



Sir Alfred Roberts, President, in the Chair. 

 Twenty-five members were present. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The certificates of two candidates were read for the third time, 

 of three for the second time, and of two for the first time. 



The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary members 

 of the Society : — 



Blaxland, Walter, F.R.C.S., Eng., &c, Sydney. 



Clubbe, C. P. B., L.R.C.P.,Z(mc/., M.R.C.S., Eng., Ranclwick. 



The Chairman announced that the Council had awarded the 

 Society's Medal and money prize of =£25 to the Rev. J. E. 

 Tenison-Woocls, F.L.S., F.G-.S., for his paper upon " The Anatomy 

 and Life-history of Mollusca peculiar to Australia." 



He also stated that' Mr. Robert Ethericlge, Government 

 Palaeontologist, being now a resident of Sydney, had retired from 

 his Corresponding Membership, and become an Ordinary Member 

 of the Society. 



The following letters were read from the Rev. J. E. Tenison- 

 "VVoods, F.L.S., &c, acknowledging the award of the Society's 

 Medal and money prize ; and from Hyde Clarke, Esq., London, 

 a Corresponding Member of the Society : — 



533 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, 



31st May, 1888. 

 F. B. Kyngdon, Esq., Hon. Sec. Eoyal Society of N.S.W. 



Sir, — I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your letter 

 conveying 1 to me the agreeable intelligence that the Council of the Society 

 had awarded to me the prize and the Society's Medal for my essay on 

 " The Anatomy and Life-history of Mollusca peculiar to Australia." I 

 have also to acknowledge a cheque for ,£25, being the amount of the 

 Society's prize. 



Will you kindly convey to the Council my sincere thanks for the honor 

 thus done me, and assure them that the Medal will, be treasured by me 

 and the award considered distinguished encouragement to research in 

 biology. 



I beg to enclose you a cheque for the sum of five pounds (=£5) as a 

 contribution to the building fund of the Society, which the Council will 

 do me a favor by accepting. 



I will revise the manuscript as soon as possible, and will, with the 

 permission of the Council, add somp interesting observations which I 

 have been able to make since the essay was first sent in. I will return 

 it ready for the press in a few days. 



I have the honor to be. Sir, 



Yours very faithfully, 



J. E. TENISON- WOODS. 



