PROCEEDINGS. 561 
_ The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 
The certificates of three new candidates were read for the third 
time. 
The following gentlemen were duly elected ordinary members 
of the Society :— 
Ross, Colin John, B.sc., B.E., AMI.C.E.; Sydney. 
Ross, Herbert E. ; Sydney. 
Ward, James Wenman ; Sydney. 
The Chairman made the following announcements, viz :— 
1. That the Society would shortly be connected with the Tele- 
phone Exchange. 
2. That members using the Library could, if they wished, be 
supplied with a cup of tea, &c., price 6d. 
3, That the Society had purchased fourteen feet of land adjoining 
their present premises. 
Five volumes, sixty-three parts, three reports, four pamphlets, 
and eighteen hydrographic charts, received as donations since the 
last meeting were laid upon the table and acknowledged. 
The following papers were read :— 
Le Contributions to a knowledge of Australian vegetable exuda- 
tions, No, 1,” by J. H. Marpsn, F.1.s. &c., and H. G. Smira. 
Some questions were asked by the President, to which Mr. 
Maiden replied, 
2 « Icebergs in the Southern Ocean,” by H. C. RussELt, B.a., 
OM.G., PRs, 
Sg discussion followed in which the Hon. Dr. Oreed, Mr. 
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Gale, Mr. P. N. Trebeck, and the President took part. 
Mr. Watrar F. Gaus, F.R.A.8., said he had listened with con- 
ble pleasure to Mr. Russell’s paper. There could be no 
4S to the great value of a more complete knowledge of the 
“tent and Movements of the ice encountered by vessels proceed- 
- 4, 1895, 
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