XXII. 



Mr. Weedon : Owing to the resignation of Professor Liversidge, 

 there is another vacancy. I move that Mr. J. H. Maiden be appointed 

 as a trustee. 



Seconded by Mr. Bailey. — Carried. 

 18. Next Meeting of Council. — 



Professor Pollock : I suggest that the next meeting of the Coun- 

 cil be held not on Monday as provided in the programme, but on 

 Friday. A great many of the members might not be here on Monday. 



The PREsmENT : The next meeting will be on Friday at 11 

 o'clock. 



[Meeting adjourned at 12.45 p.m.] 



REPORT OF MEETINGS OF RECOMMENDATION COMMITTEE. 



Held in the Girls' Grammai^ School, Brisbane, on Thursday 

 AND Friday, the 14th and 15th January, 1909. 

 Professor E. W. Skeats took the chair, and the following gentle- 

 men were in attendance : — Professor Pollock, Professor Skertchly, 

 Messrs. Knibbs, Lucas, Maiden, and Shirley. 



The Minutes of Meeting of the Committee, held on the lith 

 instant, were taken as read, and confirmed. 



Section D. 



The sub-committee appointed at the previous meeting to redraft 

 submission from this section, as to periodicals obtained by the Scien- 

 tific Societies and Libraries in the State Capitals, presented the 

 following ; — 



'' The Council is aware of arrangements made by the oSicial 

 libraries in some of the State Capitals with the view to 

 the systematising the selection and purchase of scientific 

 serials to be readily available to workers, and recommends 

 that such arrangements be adopted in all the capitals to 

 suit local requirements." 

 Proposed by Mr. Lucas, and seconded by Mr. Knibbs, that the 

 same be adopted.— Carried. 



Section C. 



Section submitted the following : — 



" The Association respectfully suggests to the Government of 



Queensland the very great desirability of imposing on the 



Geological Survey Department the duty of giving more 



attention to detailed inquiry in regard to the stratigraphy 



and general geological structure of the State." 



Professor Skeats : The committee of this section and geologists 



from other States have been aware that the staff of the Queensland 



Geological Survey Department labours under considerable difficulties 



by more attention not being paid to the scientific side of its work, so 



that, together with the examination and recording of the economic 



mineral resources as now almost exclusively carried out by the 



survey, more detailed inquiiy should be made into the stratigraphy 



and o-eneral e'eoloffical structure of the State. In New South Wales 



