ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. XXV. 
ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, OCTOBER 6, 1897. 
The General Monthly Meeting of the Society was held at the 
Society’s House, No. 5, Elizabeth-street North, on Wednesday 
evening, October 6th, 1897. 
The President, Henry Dung, M.A., M. Inst. C.E,, in the Chair. 
Twenty-seven members were present. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 
The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary Members 
of the Society :— 
Callender, James Ormiston, Sydney. 
Fell, David, Sydney. 
The certificates of two candidates were read for the second time, 
and of one for the first time. 
The President announced’ that the Council had set apart the 
front room on the first floor as a ‘Smoke Room’ for the use of 
members, 
The following letter was read :— 
| Government House, Sydney, 17th Sept., 1897. 
Sir,—I have the honour to inform you that His Excellency the Governor 
has been advised by the Secretary of State for the Colonies that Her 
Majesty has received an Address from the Royal Society of New South 
Wales, on the occasion of the completion of the Sixtieth Year of Her 
Reign. 2.1 am to add that Her Majesty. has commanded. that Her, 
‘cordial thanks are to be conveyed to the members of your Society for their, 
loyal and dutiful Address, which she gratefully appreciates. 
Tike 
have, etc., 
A. F. H. FERGUSON; C 
Private Secretary. 
The President of the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, 
Elizabeth-street, Sydney. 
THE FOLLOWING PAPERS AND NOTES WERE READ:— 
1. “Note on mutilations practised by Australian Aborigines,” by 
T. L. Bancrort, m.z. Edin. 
' Anyone having read through Professor Anderson Stuart’s paper 
” 
“The “Mika” or “Kulpi” operation of the Australian Aborigines, 
