EVENING MEETINGS. XXXIU 



behalf of the Association I represent, our congratulations upon the pro- 

 nounced success of the Association. The American Association is not 

 limited to the United States. As His Excellency the Governor has told you, 

 the British Association has met on Canadian soil. Some of our meetings 

 arc also held in the large centres of the Dominion of Canada, and the 

 meeting of the British Association was really a joint meeting of the two 

 Associations. We sometimes read disturbing telegrams, but I love to 

 think that blood is thicker than water. Now, my honoured colleagues, 

 through mc, extend to you an invitation to visit our Association. Do not 

 regard it as one of those general invitations which mean, "Just drop in as 

 you pass by ;" but, if yoii find you can be present at any of our meetings, 

 just inform our General Secretary, and, when you were present, then the 

 general invitation, you would find, would be converted into a most specific 

 one. I again thank you for your cordial welcome, and, congratulating the 

 Association upon its past and present success, I have only now to express 

 on behalf of our Association, and on my own behalf, our best wishes for 

 Australasia and the Australasian Association. 



The President then gave his inaugural address. (See page 1.) 



Mr. F. DE G. Malet said he had been asked to propose, on behalf of 

 the Association, a resolution which he was sure would be carried by 

 acclamation. The presence of His Excellency the Governor of the colony 

 there that evening could not be regarded otherwise than as a high com- 

 pliment to the Association, and a matter of congratulation for its Presi- 

 dent and officers, and those who had the interests and welfare of the 

 Association at heart. They would readily understand that His Excellency 

 had attended the meeting at considerable personal inconvenience, es- 

 pecially when they bore in mind the official and other calls upon Her 

 Majesty's representative in the colony at the present time. He had great 

 pleasure in moving. That the best thanks of the Australasian Association 

 for the Advancement of Science be accorded to His Excellency the 

 Governor for the distinction he has conferred upon the Association by his 

 presence here this evening. 



The Mayor of Christchurch had much pleasure in seconding the 

 proposition of Mr. ]\Ialet. It was conferring a very great honour upon the 

 city to select Christchurch as the meeting-place of such a scientific body. 



The motion was carried by acclamation. 



His Excellency the Governor, in acknowledging the vote, said that 

 he had learned a good deal by listening to the addresses that had been 

 made, and hoped that he and many others would be present on the follow- 

 ing evening to hear the experiences of a young New-Zealander who had 

 made a gallant attempt, in which he was almost successful, to scale one 

 of the giant mountains of the Southern Alps, which he (the speaker) had 

 had the opportunity of admiring. 



The President said he had received a telegram from Sir B. 

 Hamilton, the President of the Eoyal Society of Tasmania, accepting the 

 position of President for 1892, and congratulating the Association upon its 

 meeting here. 



The proceedings then terminated. 



Friday, 16th January, 1S91. 

 In the evening an address was given by Mr. G. E. Manncring, 

 at the Provincial Council Chamber, before a large audience, on " The 

 Glaciers of the Tasman Valley." Fifty-two photographic views, specially 

 taken by Messrs. Wheeler and Son, illustrative of the scenery of the 

 alpine region of Mount Cook and the Tasman and Murchison Glaciers, 

 were exhibited ; also a map showing the geological formation of New Zea- 

 land. The views were shown by means of a powerful lime-light under the 

 direction of Mr. Seager. 



