XLIV. 



it would be worked out on the card catalogue system. I would 

 suggest it would be perfectly safe to leave the matter to the Com- 

 mittee of the Association proposed to be appointed. 



Professor Wilson : I admit that the proposition is very 

 vague, but the idea occurred to me only recently, and not in time 

 to formulate a definite scheme. Perhaps it would be well to 

 hasten slowly and allow the scheme to be thrashed out. 



Professor Pollock seconded the motion, wliich was carried. 



The Permanent Honorary Secretary then, on behalf of the 

 Recommendations Committee, moved seriatim, that certain resolu- 

 tions be approved. (See pp. Iv.-lx. for the list.) 



Professor Pollock seconded the motion, which was agreed to. 

 The meeting terminated. 



THIRD MEETING. 



The third meeting of the General Council of the Australasian 

 Association for the Advancement of Science was held at the Sydney 

 University on Saturday, January 14th, 1911, at 11 a.m. Professor 

 Orme Masson presided, and there was a large attendance. 



Appointment of Officers. 



The President : With regard to the appointment of the 

 officers of the Association, in the first place the wording of the 

 proposed rule was not quite satisfactory, and it was referred to the 

 Permanent Honorary Secretary and myself to re-draft it. It was 

 suggested afterwards that there should be some special enactment 

 concerning the appointment of the Permanent Honorary Secretary 

 to enable us to remove such an Officer. The proposed rule is as 

 follows : — 



Officers shall include a President, five Vice-Presidents, a 

 General Treasurer and Local Secretaries and Treasurers, 

 who shall be appointed by the General Council at each 

 meeting of the Association, and shall take office at the 

 next following meeting, and there shall also be a Perma- 

 nent Honorary Secretary who shall hold office until his 

 appointment is terminated by death or resignation or 

 by reason of a resolution of the General Council, the 

 mover of such resolution to give not less than three 

 months' notice in writing. 



I thought it necessary to prevent it being possible, by a catch 

 vote at a meeting, to get rid of a valuable officer — (hear, hear) — and 

 that three months' notice in writing should be given. That will 



