12 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 



of an office boy the Assistant Secretary will now be relieved of 

 much of the merely mechanical work, thus giving him time for 

 more important matters, including the completion of the Library 

 Catalogue. 



Meetings of Sectiofis. — Only two sections were formed last year 

 viz., a Medical and a Microscopical Section. The Medical Section 

 held 7 meetings which were well attended. Besides important 

 exhibits nine papers were read and discussed at those meetings. 

 The Microscopical Section also held 7 meetings at which interest- 

 ing exhibits were shown. 



Civil Engineering Section. — In response to an application made 

 to the Council in December last by Mr. J. A. MacDonald, m.i.c.e., 

 m.i.m.e., &c, acting on behalf of those members of the Society 

 who are Civil Engineers, it was resolved to form a Civil Engineer- 

 ing Section of the Society for the purpose of reading and discussing 

 papers on both Civil and Mechanical Engineering. This has 

 been carried into effect for this Session, the officers and committee 

 having been elected at a provisional meeting held for that purpose 

 last month, and I am very pleased to learn that there is every 

 prospect of the new section becoming a most useful and suc- 

 cessful one. 



Only two other Sections were formed at the provisional meetings 

 held last month viz., a Medical and a Microscopical Section, which 

 in fact were already in existence from previous years. 



Alteration in Bye-Laws : Increase in the number of members of 

 the Council &c. — At the General Monthly Meeting held on May 

 7th last year certain amendments to Rule III. of our Bye-Laws 

 were proposed, and agreed to at the following General Monthly 

 Meeting held June 4th. The amended rules are to the effect that 

 we elect now four Vice-Presidents instead of two, and ten other 

 members of the Council (besides an Honorary Treasurer and one 

 or more Hon. Secretaries) instead of six as previously. The 

 elections this evening were made in accordance with these new 

 rules. It is hoped that by thus increasing the number of our 



