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Council. 



No change has taken place during the session. 



Library. 

 The Library has been re-enriched by the acquisition of a 

 fine copy of " The Voyages of H.M.S. Challenger." 

 The accrued interest in the Morton Allport Memorial 

 Fund, which was used for the purchase, did not quite 

 reach the sum (£91) required, but the opportunity for 

 securing the valuable work was so favourable that it was 

 thought advisable to forestall the interest for a few years. 



Finance. 

 The income has been : — Subscriptions to Royal Society, 

 £149 bs.; fixed deposit, £218 Ss. ; interest, £22 7^. ; 

 total, £380. Expenditure, £190 35. 2c?. 



The Chairman : It is my duty to move that the report 

 and balance-sheet just read be adopted. The greater 

 portion of the report is of a very interesting and extremely 

 satisfactory character. The meetings of the Society have 

 been well attended, and the subjects brought forward and 

 discussed have been important and varied. The allusion 

 to the meeting of the great scientific Society of Australasia 

 is interesting, because the Royal Society of Tasmania has 

 been a good deal mixed up in that meeting, which was 

 the most successful — and I think I may say the most 

 pleasant — of all that has hitherto been held in connection 

 with the Scientific Congress of Australasia. (Hear, hear.) 

 It has been a very great pleasure to us to know that all 

 our visitors on that occasion went away with a favourable 

 impression of the colony at large. You have seen that 

 the Government Astronomer of New South Wales has 

 been particularly impressed with the clearness of the 

 atmosphere of Tasmania, so that nothing would please 

 him more than to see an astronomical station established 

 here. He said that he could do more work in a week in 

 Hobart than in several weeks in New South Wales, and 

 is most anxious that we should endeavour to utihse the 

 Leake bequest for it. I have no doubt that it is our 

 intention to try, if possible, to get that bequest so as to get 

 a station estabhshed in Hobart, and I have great hopes 



