18 APPENDIX TO president's ADDRESS. 



OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION. 



The objects of the British Association are set forth as follows : and the 

 proposed Australasian Association would probably do well to try to follow 

 the same lines : — 



" The Association conteinplates no interference with the ground occupied 

 by other Institutions. Its objects are— to give a stronger impulse, and a 

 more systematic direction to scientific enquiry— to promote the intercourse 

 of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire with 

 one another, and with Foreign Philosophers — to obtain a more general 

 attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a 

 public kind which impede its progi'ess." 



(Here followed Proposed Rules.) 



On the 28th July, 1886, the Royal Society, New South Wales, 

 in response to this circuhxr, resolved that the followdng gentlemen 

 be selected as representatives of the Royal Society of New South 

 Wales at the proposed Australasian Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, viz., C. Rolleston, C.M.G., President ; H. C. 

 Russell, B.A., F.R.S. ; Professor Liversidge, F.R.S, ; C. S. 

 Wilkinson, F.G.S.,F.L.S., and the Honorable Dr. C. K. Mackellar, 

 M.L.C. In August the following letter was sent : — 



The University, 



Sydney, August, 1886. 

 To the Honorable Sir P. A, Jennings. K.C.M.G. &c., &c. 

 Premier of New South Wales. 

 Sir, — I have the honor to draw your attention to the enclosed printed 

 documents, in which it is suggested that the Hundredth Anniversary of the 

 Foundation of the Australian Colonies should be commemorated by holding 

 a meeting of all the Scientific Societies during the year 1888, and to request 

 that you will be pleased to consider whether you woixkl be able to 

 recommend your Government to afford the proposed Association any 

 pecuniary aid to promote the advancement of Science, as is done elsewhere. 

 Should you wish to see me respecting the matter, I shall be very happy to 

 wait upon you at any time you may appoint. 



(Signed) A. LIVERSIDGE. 



On 8th October, 1886, he wrote again from the University to 

 the Secretaries of the various Societies as follows : — 



Sir, — I have the honor to inform you that a meeting of the Committee 

 appointed to make preliminary arrangements for the proposed Austi'alian 

 Association for the Advancement of Science will be held at the house of the 

 Royal Society of New South Wales, Sj'dney, on Wednesday, 10th November, 

 at 3 p.m., at which the attendance of the representative of your Society is 

 requested. 



The business for the consideration of the Committee is as follows : — 



1. To frame Provisional Rules. 



2. To appoint a date in 1888 for the first meeting of the proposed 



Association ; copies of previous circulars enclosed. 



(signed) A. LIVERSIDGE. 



In all, six thousand circulars have been sent out to members of 

 Scientific Societies in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, 

 that is, to every member whose name and address was known ; 

 and to those w^ho take an interest in the Association, but who are 

 outside the Societies, appeal has been frequently made by 

 advertisements and notices in all the leading papers of the various 

 Colonies. 



