AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION. 159 
PoP PB Neb 1X. 
(Read on the 3rd December, 1886.) 
THE REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF 
THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF QUEENSLAND ©F ITS 
REPRESENTATIVE, COMMISSIONED TO ATTEND A 
MEETING, HELD IN THE HOUSE OF THE ROYAL 
SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, ELIZABETH STREET, 
SYDNEY, ON WEDNESDAY, THE TENTH OF NOVEM- 
BER, AT THREE O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON, FOR 
THE PURPOSE OF MAKING THE PRELIMINARY 
ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH A PROJECTED 
AUSTRALASIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCE- 
MENT OF SCIENCE. 
IN compliance with a commission, given by the Council of 
the Royal Society of Queensland, on Monday, 1st October, 
whereby Mr. Henry Tryon was appointed to represent 
the members at a preliminary meeting, convened in con- 
nection with the formation of a proposed Australasian 
Association for the Advancement of Science, your repre- 
sentative proceeded to Sydney, in the s.s. “ Maranoa,” 
which left Brisbane on Friday, the 5th November, and 
arrived there on Sunday, 7th November. 
On the day following his arrival in Sydney, your repre- 
sentative waited on Professor Liversidge, the convener of 
the meeting, and advised him, as had been previously done 
by letter also, of the fact of his appointment as representa- 
tive of the Society at it. 
The meeting was held, as previously announced, in the 
room of the Royal Society of New South Wales, on Wed- 
nesday, 10th November, and your representative attended 
the same, by virtue of his commission. 
At this meeting, Mr. H. C. Russell, B.A., F.R.S., Govern- 
ment Astronomer of New South Wales, presided, and the 
