PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. 1 
It has also granted the sum of £25 towards the ascer- 
tainment of movements of New Zealand glaciers, and £10 
towards the cost of the erection at Timaru of the 
Seismological instruments, presented by Dr. Von Rebeur- 
Paschwitz. It has secured (1) from the New Zealand 
Government the reservation of the Little Barrier Island, 
and Resolution Island, Dusky Sound, as suitable localities 
for the preservation of Native Flora and Fauna. (2) In 
response to a recommendation from the 1891 Session, it 
was agreed by the Lords of the Admiralty, that the sea 
between New Zealand, and the islands to the N.W. of New 
Zealand on the one hand, and Australia and Tasmania on 
the other, be known as the 'asman Sea, and that the name 
is to be entered on the Admiralty charts. (3) Further, 
through the instrumentality of the Association, the New 
Zealand Government has set apart Stephen’s Island, Cook 
Strait, as a reserve for the Tuatara Lizard, and (4) Corre- 
spondence has been received from the Governments of Tas- 
mania, New South Wales, New Zealand, and Victoria, in 
which sympathetic acknowledgment is expressed towards 
the wishes of the Association in regard to resolutions, passed 
at its last Session (in Brisbane), viz., to bring before the 
Australasian Governments that it is desirable :— 
(a) That a system of compulsory notice of infectious 
diseases be introduced. 
(b) That a system of Federal Quarantine be introduced. 
(c) That stock, the milk or flesh of which is intended 
for consumption, be examined by duly qualified 
men, and slaughtered, if found Tuberculous or 
Cancerous. 
At the last Session (Brisbane, 1895) a number of research 
committees were. appointed, some of which will report 
during the present Session. Chief among these may be 
mentioned :— 
1. For the investigation of Glacial Deposits. (Reap- 
pointed.) 
