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issued in pursuance of the generally approved proposal in 

 Dr. Neild's address on " Literature and art." That proposal 

 was, that early steps should be taken under the 58rd Law 

 of the Society to form Section G, for the Promotion of 

 Literature and Art, including Architecture. I would 

 commend this movement to the attention of Members of 

 this Society. Our labours hitherto have almost been 

 entirely in the direction of Science, but a wider scope is open 

 to the Society, We are not restricted to Science as the only 

 direction in which our discussions and investigations can take. 

 Under Law 53, we are empowered to take up Literature 

 and Art. I hope this Section will be developed vigorously. 

 The only difficulty in this workaday world is to find time. 

 I hope that those who have not come forward strongly in 

 the Science direction will take up Literature and Art. 



Association for the Advancement of Science. 



The Chairman said : — I have also to draw attention to a 

 circular from the Australasian Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, whose next meeting is to be held in 

 Melbourne, on the 7th January, 1890. I hope that the 

 meeting in Melbourne will be as successful as the last one 

 held in Sydney. I trust that Members will not forget this 

 event, and that they will take part in the discussions and 

 supply papers. 



The Librarian read a list of books and periodicals, 

 eight3^-seven in all, which had been received since last 

 Meeting from different parts of the world. He said : — I 

 take the liberty of announcing that since last Meeting the 

 Council have accepted a tender for putting up more book 

 shelves in the Librarj^, a work whicli I think is highly 

 necessary. I hope that the shelves will be in position 

 before next Meeting. I would like to say that our Library, 

 although a miscellaneous one, is a very valuable one ; and it 

 has been decided by the Council, and I think properly, that 

 the books comprising the Library shall not go out of the 

 building in the future. A great many of them, I am sony 

 to say, have been lost owing to the practice of letting them 

 out. I do not think the Members will regard it as a 

 hardship, that in future they will have to consult the books 

 in the building. I will not say there is an absolute 

 immorality amongst the communit}^ but books have been 

 taken away and withheld, not perhaps for any dishonest 



