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volume, which shall also comprise the titles of memoirs which must be 

 regarded as Anonymous, having been published without the author's name. 

 The original Serial Catalogue prepared in manuscript for the use of the 

 Fellows of the Society still remains in the Library ; and it is with great 

 satisfaction that I am able to add that the Library itself already possesses 

 the Transactions, Journals, and other periodical works in which two-thirds 

 of the 213,000 titles already collected for the Catalogue are contained; 

 and that every endeavour is making to render the Library as complete as 

 possible in this important branch of scientific literature. 



The total expenses hitherto incurred in the preparation of the Catalogue 

 amount to <l 626 ; and to this a small annual addition will be required 

 until the printing and publication shall have been completed. 



The Fellows of the Royal Society, and those especially who are in- 

 terested in the progress of Sidereal Astronomy, will hear with pleasure 

 that the communications, passing through Her Majesty's principal Secre- 

 tary of State for the Colonies, between Sir Henry Barkly, K.C.B., F.R.S., 

 Governor of the Colony of Victoria, and the President and Council of the 

 Royal Society, regarding'the establishment at Melbourne of a telescope of 

 great optical power for the observation of the Nebulae and multiple stars 

 of the southern hemisphere, have led to a vote which has passed the 

 Legislature of Victoria of .5000 for a suitable telescope, to be con- 

 structed under the superintendence of the President and Council of the 

 Royal Society. In the Anniversary Address in 1862, and again in that of 

 1863, I availed myself of the opportunities then afforded of making 

 known to the Fellows the progress of the communications which at each of 

 those dates had taken place between the Government of Victoria, the 

 authorities of the Melbourne Observatory, and the Royal Society ; and 

 I have now the satisfaction of laying before you the following letter, re- 

 ceived on the 23rd of last month from Professor Wilson, Honorary Secre- 

 tary of the Board of Visitors of the Melbourne Observatory : 



" The University, Melbourne. Aug. 21, 1865. 

 "My DEAR SIR, 



" It is with very great satisfaction that 1 forward to you the following 

 resolutions of the Board of Visitors adopted on the loth inst. : 



" 1. That the President of the Royal Society of London be informed 

 that the Legislature of Victoria has voted the sum of .5000 for the 

 purchase of an equatorial telescope, one half of which sum has been 

 already remitted to the Crown Agents in England, and placed at the dis- 

 posal of Major Pasley, of the Royal Engineers, for the purpose ; and that the 

 Government has placed the correspondence connected with it in the hands 

 of the Board of Visitors. 



" 2. That the President and Council of the Royal Society be requested 

 to give the Board of Visitors the benefit of their assistance in selecting a 

 maker, settling the contract, and superintending the construction of the 



