PROCEEDINGS, APKIt. 



Waloh's Catalogue of Books for 1890. From the Publishers. 



_ Sir Lambert Dobson thought that they could hardly allow the 

 list of additions to pass without calling special attention to the 

 valuable addition made to the library by the presentation of the ninth 

 edition of the "Encyclopaedia Britannica " by His Excellency. This 

 was a very grand and noble work, a veritable storehouse of knowledge, 

 and treating of almost every possible subject in articles supplied by the 

 greatest specialists of the day. He would not move a formal vote of 

 thanks, as His Excellency was in the chair, but he was sure he spoke the 

 unanimous feeling of the Society when he said that they all cordially 

 appreciated the gift of His Excellency. (Applause.) 



His Excellency, who was received with applause, said that the 

 discovery of the existence of a Royal Society in vigorous operation was 

 one of the many pleasant surprises he met in coming to Tasmania, and 

 he made up his mind to do all he could to advance its objects, and as 

 time went on to mark his appreciation of the work of the Society in a 

 tangible and useful way. He had himself found in considering some of 

 the subjects brought forward by the Society the want of ready access to 

 some comprehensive and authoritative work of reference, and it seemed 

 to him that the want must be felt by others. He therefore determined 

 to present the Society with the best and most comprehensive work of 

 reference, and it gave him much gratification to find that the addition to 

 the library had met with acceptance. (Applause.) 



AUSTRALASIAS ASSOCIATION. 



Mr. James Barnard, Vice-President of the Society, said : Following 

 the course which I took on the occasion of my return from attending the 

 first meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, which was held in Sydney in 1888, when I gave a short personal 

 explanation of what had occurred, I now ask permission to state in a 

 few words the particulars of the second annual meeting of the Association, 

 which was held in Melbourne in January last. As is known to the 

 Fellows, several other gentlemen representing our Royal Society were 

 associated with me in this visit to Melbourne, and I venture to in some 

 measure speak their sentiments as well as my own when I bear testimony 

 to the warmth and cordiality of the welcome accorded to us in Melbourne 

 from the moment of our arrival until our departure. Throughout our 

 stay we were most hospitably entertained with free quarters by Dr. 

 Leeper at Trinity College in the University, besides sharing in a variety 

 of entertainments and concerts given generally to the members of the 

 Association by the distinguished President, Baron Von Mueller, K.C.B., 

 the Hon. Sir William Clarke, Bart., the Worshipful the Mayor of 

 Melbourne and others. Excursions and visits to places of attraction 

 were also planned and provided for, and were more or less availed of. I 

 need not speak of the part which my colleagues and myself took in the 

 work of the several sections of the Association, as that will be shown 

 in the annual volume recording its transactions. Suffice it to say that 

 the sittings of the various sections were assiduously attended by our little 

 Tasmanian band. During the session Tasmania came well to the front, 

 and the proposal to hold the fourth annual meeting of the Association at 

 Hobart in 1892, instead of at Adelaide, received general support, and 

 Was carried by acclamation. Hence it is suggested that a corresponding 

 obligation is now imposed upon the Council and Fellows of the Royal 

 Society of Tasmania, aided by the willing co-operation of all having 

 sympathy with the object, to form themselves into a committee to consider 

 the proper steps to be taken for holding the meeting of the Association in 

 Hobart at the date fixed ; nor is it much too soon to open a subscription- 

 list and invite for it liberal support ; for while it is neither expected nor 

 desired that Tasmania, with its limited means, should attempt to vie 



