706 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27th, 1892. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. The President, Professor Has well, M.A., D.Sc, in the Chair The mi confirmed. The minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read and PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. The past year is one which, I have little doubt, will always be looked back upon as one of the most eventful in the history of this Society. During its course we have lost by death two of our most valued members, one of whom had long been in many ways the mainstay of the Society, and we have been placed by a generous bequest in a position in which our opportunities of doing good work ought to be considerably increased. The attendance at the monthly meetings during the year has, on the whole, been satisfactory : and a number of papers of interest and value have been read. In addition to the reading of these there have been exhibitions of many interesting objects, often suggestive of new fields of inquiry. During the year seven new members have been elected, and five have been lost by death or retirement. Four members have died during the year, namely, Mr. C. S. Wilkinson, Mr. K. H. Bennett, Sir William Macleay, and Sir John Hay. Charles Smith Wilkinson, Government Geologist, who died on August 25th at the comparatively early age of 47, was born in England in 1843. For some 25 years he was engaged in the work of geological surveying in this colony and in Victoria, and, though the demands of his official work, relating in great measure to the development of mining industries, left him but little leisure, he
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