Report of the Meetings of the Society. 
Meeting held ijth July. — The Honourable W. Russell, 
Vice-President in the chair. 
There were 13 members present. 
Elections. — Member : His Honour Francis Fleming. 
Associates : Frank Fowler, Donald Smith, 
William McKenzie, A. C. Marshall, J. C. McDonell, 
George T. Duffield. 
Discussions at the Meetings— 0\\ the suggestion of 
the chairman it was agreed that at the next meeting fur- 
ther discussion on papers formerly read should be 
invited. 
Sir John Scott. — The secretary stated that the di- 
rectors, considering it desirable to obtain a portrait of 
Sir John Scott, to be placed among the other portraits 
of Governors of the colony which had been presented 
to the Society, and having communicated with Sir John 
Scott on the subject, the latter had been good enough 
to send the portrait now on the table. 
It was ordered that the best thanks of the Society be 
sent to Sir John Scott for this gift, and that the portrait 
be placed in the Reading Room. 
The chairman placed on the table several copies of a 
letter dated 4th instant, addressed by him to the Hon'ble 
W. A. G. Young, on the East Coast Water supply. 
The thanks of the meeting were given to the chairman. 
The following communication from F. A. Trew of 
Pin. S?nythjield ) to the Hon'ble W. Russell, dated 3rd 
