Report of Society's Meetings. 193 
Ele£tions. — Members : Julius \V. Conrad, E. L. Max, 
H. D. Seedorf, Wm. Price Abell. 
Associates: W. A. Harrison, J. E. Strickland. 
In answer to a letter of enquiry addressed to the 
Treasurer by the Rev. John Foreman, the President 
explained that the balance of $3,718 17, mentioned in 
the last financial statement, included the $2,000, placed at 
the disposal of the Agricultural Committee, but which had 
not been drawn. 
The President stated that the Directors at their last 
meeting had under consideration arrears of subscriptions 
due from members and associates. He was glad to learn 
from the Treasurer that several subscriptions had since 
then been paid in ; and he wished now to intimate that 
the Directors had decided, in order to carry out the rules 
of the Societv, that all members and associates in 
arrears of subscription at 30th June be struck off the 
roll. 
Mr. Hawtayne gave notice that, at the next meeting, 
he would move that it was desirable that lectures be given 
in the institution by members and their friends. 
The President stated that, at the next meeting, he 
would ask the members to decide whether or not the 
Reading-Rooms should continue to be opened in the 
evenings. The Dire£tors, in response to the wishes of 
the members had now continued the experiment from the 
1st February; but he was sorry to say the very small 
average attendance did not seem to warrant the extra 
expense incurred in lighting and attendance. 
A letter was read from Mr. John Minty of Pin. 
Uitvlugt, stating that, at the request of Mr. Russeli, he 
had planted several parcels of rice received from Calcutta 
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