Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. lOJ) 



APPENDIX. 



(1) Report of Section G (Literature and the 

 , • Fine Arts). 



I beg leave to report the continuous increase of numbers 

 and interest in the Section. There are now seventy members 

 of the Section, of whom forty-four have become Associates 

 or Members of the Royal Society, for the sake of being 

 Members of the Section. 



The meetings have been well attended, the average being 

 over forty. 



The suggestion made by Mr. Archer last year, that some 

 of Turner's sketches, now entombed in the vaults of the 

 National Gallery, London, should be obtained on loan, if not 

 permanently, for the instruction of students of landscape in 

 the Art Schools of Victoria, has been revived by the 

 Committee, and the sanction of the Council has been 

 obtained to the taking of measures to secure them. Series 

 of them, adapted to the object proposed, are understood to 

 be obtainable, and would prove of the highest value to 

 our rising local artists. It is much to be desired that the 

 negotiations in this direction may be crowned with success. 



Since the last report, at the meeting on the 24th Novem- 

 ber last, Mr. Rusden read a paper on " Parables." The next 

 meeting was on the 2Sth February, when Mr. Ernest Jager 

 read the first of a series of papers on " The Orchesti'a, its 

 Material, and How to Listen to It." On the 28th March, 

 Mr. Sisley read a paper on " Affectations of Poetry." On 

 the 25th April, Mr. Sutherland opened a discussion upon 

 " Tennyson." On the 23rd May, the Rev. E. H. Sugden read 

 a paper on "Dr. Murray's New English Dictionary;" and 

 Mr. Archer another on "Professors of the University and 

 Colonial Civilization." On the 27th June, Mr. Jager read 

 the second of his papers on " The Orchestra." On the 25th 

 July, Dr. Neild read a note on "A recent Humourist, 

 Jerome K.Jerome;" Mr. Sutherland read "Some Remarks 

 on Alfred Domett, a New Zealand Poet;" and Mr. Rusden 

 " A Note on Fiction." At the following meeting, on the 

 22nd August, Mi.ss Blair read to an audience numbering 

 sixty, "A Few Good Words for the Storyteller." On the 

 26th September, Mr. Geo. Gordon McCrae read a pai)er 



