The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 52
Inaugural Meeting of the Society
Inaugural Meeting of the Society.
The inaugural meeting of the "Geographical Society of Australasia" was held at the Protestant Hall, Castlereagh-street, Sydney, on the 22nd June, 1883. A very large attendance, estimated at 700 to 800 persons, filled the building, and the proceedings opened by a short address from the Vice-President elect, Prof. W. J. Stephens, M.A., immediately followed by the reading of the following paper by the Hon. Sec. of the Society, Mr. E. Marin La Meslée.