20 APPENDIX TO president's ADDRESS. 



WEDNESDAY, 10th NOVEMBER, 1886. 



Preliminary Meeting of the Australasian Association for 

 THE Advancement of Science, held at the Royal 

 Society's House, No. 37 Elizabeth Street North, 

 Sydney, at 3 p m. 



Professor Liversidge placed on the table, letters from the 

 principal Australasian Societies, agreeing to the proposal to form 

 an Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science and 

 appointing the following delegates, viz. : — 



NEW SOUTH WALES. 



1. Engineering Association of N.S.W., A. C. Mountain and 



Geo. A. Key. 



2. Geographical Society of Australasia (N.S.W. Branch), Sir 



Edward Strickland, K.C.B. 



3. Institute of Architects of N.S. W., Thomas Rowe, F.R.I. B.A. 



4. Linnean Society of N.S.W., Professor W. J. Stephens, M.A., 



and J. J. Fletcher, M.A., B.Sc. 



5. N.S.W. Institute of Surveyors, no reply received. 



6. N.S.W. Zoological Society, Dr. A. T. Holroyd, F.L.S., and 



Dr. George Bennett, F.L.S. 



7. Royal Society of N.S.W., C. Rolleston, C.M.G. ; H. C. 



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

 Wilkinson, F.G.S. ; Hon. C. R. Mackellar, M.B., M.L.C. 



NEW ZEALAND. 



8. Auckland Institute, no delegate appointed. 



9. Hawke's Bay Philosophical Institute, no reply received. 



10. Nelson Philosophical Society, S. Herbert Cox, F.C.S., F.G.S. 



11. New Zealand Institute, no reply received. 



12. Otago Institute, Rev. J. E. Tenison- Woods, F.G.S., F.L.S. 



13. Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, S. Herbert Cox, 



F.C.S., F.G.S. 



14. Southland Institute, no reply received. 



15. Wellington Philosophical Society, no delegate appointed. 



1 6. Westland Institute, no delegate appointed. 



17. Westland Naturalist and Acclimatisation Society, no reply 



received. 



QUEENSLAND. 



18. Geographical Society of Australia (Queensland Branch), 



J. B. Thomson, M.A., C.E. 



19. Royal Society of Queensland, Henry Tryon. 



