PROCEEDINGS. V 



It was decided that the first monthly General Meeting 1 should 

 be held at the Raffles Library on Thursday 28th February 1878, 

 when the President would read his Inaugural Address. 



Thursday, the 28th February, 1878. 



Members of the Council Present. 



Ven. Archdeacon G. F. Hose. President. 



J. D. Vaughan Esq., Vice President for Singapore. 



The Hon'ble C. J. Irving, Homy. Treasurer. 



N. B. Dennys Esq. Ph. D. Homy. Secretary. 



The Hon'ble J. Douglas, C. M. G. 



Ernest Bieber, Esq. L. L. D. 



A.. M. Skinner, „ 



E. Koek, „ 



J. Miller, 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



On the recommendation of the Council 35 gentlemen were 

 elected Members of the Society. 



The President proposed that Mr. M. Maclay, the distin- 

 guished Russian Traveller, who was at present residing in tho 

 Settlement, and who, as was w T ell known, had extensively explored 

 the Malay Peninsula and the coasts of New Guinea, should be 

 elected an Honorary Member of the Society. The proposition 

 was seconded by Mr. Skinner, and was carried unanimously. 



The Ven. Archdeacon Hose delivered his Inaugural Address, 

 as President of the Society, see page 1. 



Mr. Skinner, at the request of the President, exhibited a sketch 

 Map of the Malay Peninsula on a large scale, which is being gra- 

 dually filled in as surveys are made or as information is otherwise 

 received ; and drew attention to the great extent to which the 

 Peninsula still remained unexplored, even after all the recent ad- 

 ditions that had been made to our knowledge. 



The Honorary Secretary read a paper on "the Breeding Pearls 

 of Borneo" (see page 31) and exhibited Specimens. 



The Hon'ble Mr. Douglas moved that a vote of thanks be 

 given to the President for his valuable and interesting address. 

 This was cordially agreed to : and after a few words of acknow- 

 ledgement from the President, the Meeting separated. 



