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interchange of visits between the two Associations. ‘This 
will do much to make the scientific men of the two countries 
better acquainted with each other, and what is of more 
importance, with each other’s work for the common end, 
viz., The Advancement of Science. 
THE AUSTRALASIAN ASSOCIATION. 
The meetings of this Association are conducted upon 
similar lines, but as our President and most of the officers 
and members are necessarily resident, the visits of the 
Association are not of so guest-like a character as those of 
the British Association. 
I need hardly remind you that the Australian Association 
held its first meeting in Sydney, from 27th August to 5th 
September, of the Centennial year, 1888, under the 
Presidency of Mr. H. C. Russell, C.M.G., F.R.S., with a 
roll of 850 full members. Meetings have since been held in 
Melbourne in 1890, with 1,162 full members, when the late 
Baron von Mueller, K.C.M.G., F.R.S., M. and Ph.D., was 
President ; at Christchurch, N.Z., in 1891—President, Sir 
James Hector, K.C.M.G., M.D., F.R.S.; at Hobart, in 
1892—-President, His Excellency Sir Robert Hamilton, 
K.C.B., LL.D.; at Adelaide, in 1893—President, Prof. 
Ralph Tate, F.G.S., F.L.S.; and at Brisbane, in 1895, 
when the Hon. A. C. Gregory, C.M.G., M.L.C., F.R.G.S., 
was President. 
The Government of New South Wales provided for the 
printing of the first volume, and the Governments of 
Victoria, Tasmania, New Zealand, South Australia, and 
Queensland, have each in turn given liberal assistance, both 
by money grants and in other ways, towards the expenses 
of the Session, and by printing the volume of reports and 
papers. 
The Association has up to the present published 6 volumes 
of reports, each of about 1,000 pages, containing much 
important matter; it has appointed Committees for the 
