PROCEEDINGS. . XXI 



Appointment of Recommendation Committee. 



Professor Hutton said the next business was to appoint a Recom- 

 mendation Committee. This was a new departui-e as regarded the Aus- 

 tralasian Association, but it was carried out in tlie British Association. 

 The work of the Recommendation Committee was to consider all the 

 recommendations made by the Sections, and bring them before the 

 General Committee. This would prevent crude work being done. He 

 now moved. That the Committee comprise the President-elect, Sir James 

 Hector; the retiring President, Baron von Mueller; Professors Hutton, 

 Liversidge, Warren, and Kernot; Messrs. Jack, Morton, and Dixon. 



Professor Liversidge seconded the motion, which was carried. 



Report of Special Committee on New Rules. 



The report of the Special Committee appointed at last meeting to 

 draft a revised code of laws for the Associatioii was brought up, and 

 copies were distributed amongst the members of the Committee, for con- 

 sideration. 



The Chairman said the General Committee would discuss the re- 

 commendations of the Special Committee at the second meeting on 

 Tuesday next. 



Professor Hotton explained what had been done by the Special Com- 

 mittee, and said it was not intended finally to settle the amendments 

 at this meeting, but to leave it to the Hobart meeting to decide on and 

 confirm the new rules. He now moved the reception of the report of 

 the Special Committee. 



Professor Liversidge seconded the motion, which was carried, and 

 the report stood referred to the Recommendation Committee. 



The Committee then adjourned. 



Second Meeting: Tuesday, SOtJi January, 1S91. 



The General Committee met at 2 p.m. Sir J. Hector, President, was 

 in the chair, and eighteen members were present. 



The President said that, as this was the first occasion on which he 

 had presided over a meeting of the Committee, lie would take the oppor- 

 tunity of expressing his thanks to the members for his election as Presi- 

 dent of the Association, and was proud that his name would be handed 

 down to posterity in connection with it. 



A letter was received from Mr. S. Black, the Secretary of the Nelson 

 Philosophical Society, forwarding the following resolution : " The Council 

 of the Nelson Philosophical Society desire to give expression to the 

 interest and gratification with which their members view the approaching 

 meeting in New Zealand of the Australasian Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, and to state that should any of its members visit this 

 district they would gladly assist them with all the information in their 

 power; and regret that, owing to the illness of their President, they are 

 unable to offer any formal reception." 



Professor Hutton stated that, though the letter was dated the 9th 

 January, it had not reached him in time to be brought before the first 

 meeting of the Committee. 



The letter was ordered to be acknowledged with thanks. 



Neiu Rules. 

 The rules of the Association, with a number of amendments suggested 

 by the Recommendation Committee, were brought up for further con- 

 sideration. 



