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received as donations since the last meeting were laid upon the 
table and acknowledged. 
Due notice having been given at the previous meeting, it was 
unanimously resolved that the whole of the last paragraph of 
Rule XIV. be deleted, viz. :— 
“ At the meeting held in July, and at all subsequent meetings 
for the year, a list of the names of all those members who are in 
arrears with their annual subscriptions shall be suspended in the 
Rooms of the Society. Members shall in such cases be informed 
that their names have been thus posted. 
Prof. T. W. E. Davin, B.A., F.G.8., then read his address. 
A vote of thanks was passed to the retiring President, and 
Mr. J. H. Maipey, F.1.s., was installed as President for the 
ensuing year. 
Mr. Marpen thanked the members for the honour conferred 
upon him. 
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1896. 
J. H. Maiey, F.1.s., President, in the Chair. 
Thirty-three members and five visitors were present. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. 
The certificate of one new candidate was read for the third time 
and of six for the second time. 
The following gentleman was duly elected an ordinary member 
of the Society :— 
Cook, W. E., w.c.z. Melb. Univ., M. Inst.c.E.; Pitt Street. 
Sixteen volumes, sixty-three parts, two reports, and five 
pamphlets, received as donations since the last meeting were laid 
upon the table and acknowledged. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. “On periodicity of good and bad seasons,” by H. C. RussEtt, 
B.A., O.M.G., F.R.S. 
Some remarks were made by the President, Prof. David, 
and Judge Docker 
