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G.C.B., expressing his regret at being unable to attend the ninth 
Jubilee of the University of Glasgow, to represent this Associa- 
tion. Some apologies for absence were read. 
Correspondence with the various Governments, respecting re- 
commendations from the Melbourne meeting, on the subject of a 
uniform system of spelling native names and places, was read. 
Some of the Governments acknowledged the correspondence, and 
others intimated that the subject was receiving consideration. 
Further consideration of the subject was referred to the joint 
Sections for Geography and Ethnology, acting in conjunction. 
Reply read from the Government of Queensland, on the Associa- 
tion’s recommendation, on the subject of forest areas. Referred 
to the Biological Section. 
As to the prevention of tuberculosis, replies were received from 
the Governments of South Australia, New South Wales, New 
Zealand, Tasmania, Queensland, and Victoria. Also, from 
Boards of Health of Sydney and Melbourne. Consideration of 
the replies referred to the Sanitary Science Section. 
Balance-sheets, excepting that for the Melbourne meeting 
(which will be considered later), were adopted. 
Reports from the following Research Committees were referred 
to the sectional committees concerned :—Seismological, Magnetic 
Survey of New Zealand, Glacial, and Mental Science Committees. 
A complaint was made that there was no report from the Biologi- 
cal Committee. 
MurtiterR Memoria. 
Mr. S. Hall, Melbourne University, wrote, stating that 
the Committee of the Baron von Mueller National Memorial 
Fund had decided to place the money collected by it in the hands 
of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 
for the purpose of founding a medal. He enclosed a copy of the 
regulations which it was desired should govern the administra- 
tion of the fund. The Memorial Committee would place a suit- 
able die, and the balance of the fund would be at the disposal of 
the Association, if the offer were accepted. 
The regulations provided that the fund was to be administered 
by a committee to be appointed by the Council of the Association 
at each meeting ; the capital of the fund to remain entire, interest 
only to be at the disposal of the committee. The interest of the 
_fund to be devoted to the purchase of a bronze medal, to be 
awarded not more frequently than every second year to the 
author of the most important contribution, or series of contri- 
butions, to natural knowledge, published originally within His 
Majesty’s dominions within a period of not more than five, nor 
less than one year, of the date of the award, preference being 
always given to work having special reference to Australasia. 
The portion of the interest remaining, after the purchase of the 
medal, to be awarded as a prize to accompany the latter. The 
first committee to be elected at the Hobart meeting. 
Captain Hutton, seconded by Mr. R. M. Johnston, moved 
that the offer be accepted, and that details be referred to the 
Mueller Committee already in existence. Agreed to, with the 
name of Mr. T. S. Hall, Melbourne University, being added. 
RECOMMENDATION COMMITTEE. 
Mr. J. H. Maiden (Sydney) moved that the Recommendation 
Committee consist of the present and past Presidents, the 
Treasurer, and past and present General Secretaries. Agreed to. 
