freight and other disbursements. The expenditure 

 heavy, and amounted to £1,304 4s. 7d., including £137 for the 

 Conversazione, and £100 for the book cases in the hall and library. 

 The cost of the Society's Journal was also great, being no less 

 tluin £246. 



After transferring £107 2s. to the Building and Investment 

 Fund, there remained a balance of £5 8s. 3d. to carry forward to 



The sum to the credit of the Building and Investment Fund is 

 £514 3s. Id., and the Clarke Memorial Fund now amounts to 

 £276 lis. 4d., of which, however, £30 4s. 9d. is still due from 

 the liquidator of tlie Oriental Bank. These sums are invested as 

 fixed deposits in the Union Bank at five per cent, per annum 



Tlie balanceofthe Smith Memorial Fund amounting to £ 90s. lOd. 

 ^\;i.s spent in the purchase of photographs, which were sent to all 

 tlie subscribers. In addition to the Reserve Fund of over £500, 

 tile Society possesses the premises in which we are now assembled 

 together with the furniture and ellects, and a very valuable 

 library. There are no liabilities whatever beyond the current 

 expenses. 



During the past session the Society held seven Monthly Meetings 

 at which the following papers were read : — 



May 2, 1888.— Presidential Address. By C. S. Wilkinson, F.G.S. 



June 6— Forest Destruction in N.S.W. and its effects on the flow 



of water in watercourses and on the rainfall. By 



W. E. Abbot, Wingen. 



„ On the increasing magnitude of Eta Argus. By H. C. 



Russell, B.A., F.R.S. 

 „ Notes on some minerals and mineral localities in the 

 Northern districts of New South Wales. By D. A. 

 Porter, Tamworth. 

 » On a simple plan of Easing Railway Curves. By Walter 

 Shellshear, A.M.I.C.E. 



