ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. xiii, 
ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, JULY 7, 1897. 
The General Monthly Meeting of the Society was held at the 
Society’s House, No. 5, Elizabeth-street North, on Wednesday 
evening, July 7th, 1897. 
The President, Henry Drang, M.A., M. Inst. C.E., in the Chair. 
Twenty-seven members and three visitors were present. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 
The certificates of two candidates were read for the second time’ 
The President announced that the council of the University 
Medical Society cordially invited the members of the Royal 
Society to attend a lecture to be delivered on the 9th instant by 
Professor Krause, of the University of Berlin, on “‘ The Remains 
of ‘ Pithecanthropus erectus’ (Dubois) recently discovered in J ava.” 
The President called on Mr. R. H. Mathews to read his papers. 
Mr. H. G. Smith raised the point of order that Mr. Mathews’ 
papers not having been announced at the previous meeting could 
not, under Rule xx., be received, and that while the President 
might under that Rule vary the order of business, he could not 
allow the reading of Mr. Mathews’ papers to be proceeded with. 
The President asked (a) if Mr. Smith intimated that section 14 
of Rule xx. prevented the reading of Mr. Mathews’ papers, and 
(6) whether Mr. Smith was aware of any rule prescribing that 
notice of the reading of papers should be given at a previous 
meeting ? 
Mr. Smith having rene to (a) in the affirmative and (d) in 
the negative. 
The President decided that as the rule in question prescribed 
_the order of business only, and as no rule existed requiring that 
notice of papers should be given at the meeting previous to that 
at which it was intended the papers should be read, Mr. Mathews’ 
Papers were properly before the meeting, having been submitted 
to, and accepted by, the Council as required by Rule xxvi. 
