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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27th, 1895. 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 
The twenty-first Annual General Meeting of the Society was 
held in the Linnean Hall, Ithaca Road, Elizabeth Bay, on Wed- 
nesday evening, March 27th, 1895. 
The President, Professor David, B.A., F.G.S., in the Chair. 
Miss Anderson, Mr. J. G. Anderson, M.A., and Mr. R. L. Jack, 
F.G.S., of Queensland, were present as visitors. 
The Minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read and 
confirmed. 
PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 
The twentieth year of the Society's history, notwithstanding 
the still prevalent depression and continued " hard times," was 
one of almost unwonted activity. Sixty papers requiring a more 
liberal allowance of illustrations than usual were contributed at 
the nine Monthly Meetings of the Session. Five Parts of the 
Proceedings, including a legacy of arrears of three Parts from the 
previous year, were issued, while Parts 3 and 4 of the Vol. for 
1894 have been issued since the commencement of 1895. These 
complete a Volume of average size, with more than the average 
number of plates; but they do not include three lengthy and 
important papers requiring illustrations, read at the November- 
Meeting. To prevent delay and to distribute expenditure, these 
have accordingly been held over, and will without avoidable loss 
of time be issued as Part 1 of the Proceedings for 1895. Ever 
since the Macleay Memorial Volume was put in hand, four years 
ago, the Society has been uninterruptedly in the printer's hands, 
