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various States have contributed freely towards the expenses involved 
by the very elaborate and complete arrangements made locally for the 
meetings, and have, moreover, provided each overseas member with a 
pass over their railway systems covering a period of six weeks, while 
their Railways Commissioners have made admirable provision for the 
transport of our large party between the different centres of meeting, 
and in connection with excursions during our stay at these centres. 
Moreover, in dealing with many intricate details of or ganisation, both 
before and during the meeting, we have been always ‘able to rely on 
the cordial advice and help of representatives of the Government both 
in this country and at home. The establishment of a central office for 
the purposes of organisation in Australia, in the Commonwealth Govern- 
ment buildings in Melbourne, under the conduct of Dr. A. C. D. Rivett, 
has proved to be the wisest method of ensuring constant and thorough 
collaboration with our own permanent office in "London during the past 
eighteen months, and between the many authorities in Australia, and 
has cuaranteed that uniformity of organising work in the various centres 
which has contributed so largely to ‘the successful working of the meet- 
ing as a whole. The Universities in the five centres have placed their 
buildings unreservedly at the services of the Association, and municipal 
and other authorities owning buildings have been no less generous. 
To all those of our polleeues oan helpers in Austral; who as 
chairmen or members of the Federal Council, general committees, 
executive committees, and hospitality committees, as local secretaries 
and treasurers, as organisers of excursions, information stewards, 
assistants in the reception rooms, or in other capacities, official and 
unofficial, have freely taken upon themselves labours, often arduous 
and prolonged, in connection with the meeting, we venture to offer 
this general expression of our heartfelt thanks; we cannot hope to do 
justice in every case to individual effort. The hospitality, both private 
and public, which has been extended to visitors throughout the’ journey 
has exceeded any possible expectation. 
Finally, we desire to acknowledge very gratefully the extraordinary 
public interest which has been aroused in the proceedings of the meet- 
ing, and, moreover, has been maintained in face of the lamentable 
events which have occurred in Europe during our stay here. A prac- 
tical illustration of that interest is afforded by the fact that a much 
greater number of members has been enrolled for this Australian meet- 
ing than for any previous meeting in the history of the Association. 
The importance of a large local membership to the interests and 
advancement of science, which is the sole object of the Association, has 
already been explained, and is clearly very well understood, in Australia. 
We need not labour the point, but may conclude by assuring the people 
of Australia that the announcement of a grand total for the meetings, in 
all centres, of more than 4,700 members‘ forms, in our view, a fitting 
4 The exact number of Overseas Members and local Members and Associates 
was 4,930. The local enrolment was made up as follows—Adelaide, 599; Mel- 
bourne, 2,017; Sydney, 1,780; Brisbane, 234. 
