At the Annual General Meeting of the Society on Tuesday night, 30ch ultimo the following report on its work was presented by the Council.
Report of the Council, 30th April, 1901.
'The Council present' to the Members the following Report on the state of the Society.
'The Society was founded at a meeting held in the Town Hail on the 22nd Janunry, and was fully constituted at a subsequent meeting held in the same place on February 12th, when Rules were adopted and' the following office bearers were elected President—Mr. Gabriel James Morrison; VicoPresidents—Mesers. Brenan Atkinson, Thomas Bunt, John Reginald Harding; Other Members of—Council—Messrs, Gilbert Davies, Walter Scott, Thomas Weir, Charles" Mayne, James Robert Twentyman, Arthur "Prescott Wood, and Mr. Charles Henry Godfrey was appointed Honorary Secretary. Cho Society entered upon its existence with a roll of 85 original members among whom there were 29° who held between them 36 qualifications as Members or Associates of kindred Societies.
The roll has since been increased by the election of 5 new members and one student. Including the meo: ing to-night, the winter session has consisted of four evening meetings at the tits of which the President delivered his address, at the xocond and. third papers were reid by Mr. J. R. Harding, Vice-President, on the erection of " lighthouse on the South Cape of Formosa, by Mr. R. H. Foy, mem-her, on the Conical.rojection of maps, and by Mr. 'T. 1. H. Ferguson, member, on a failure, only two or three proofs of the shortest paper being delivered late on the afternoon of the meeting, The Council intend as far as possible in future to make it a rule that pupers must be in their hands four weeks before the date at which they are to be read, Where diagrams are nec sary they should be supplied carefully drawn in bold tines suitable for reproduction by photolithography and large cartoons for hanging on the wall should be supplied when required.
The following papers have been promised for the Winter session viz., on Gas, by Mr. King Hiller, on light draft. steamers for the Upper Yangtze by Mr. T. Weir, on Water Tube Boilers by Mr. Holliday, on Steel Manufacture and Oil Tempering of Steel by Mr. T. Bunt and on the ication of electricity to machinery i Workshops by Mr. Sellick.
As the financial year will not close till the Bist December no accounts are submitted but subscriptions are in course of collection.
The Council hope that each member will do all that he can to promote the- in terests and ensure the prosperity of the Bociety.
Mr. J. Smedley then rend an interest~ ing pap*r on Chinese and Japanese Art and Architecture which we hops to notice more fully in a future issue,
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