by which it was thought those objects could best be obtained. 

 No response seemed to have been given to the appeal. Now 

 that the Society was better circumstanced, it should give effect 

 to the abstract resolutions proposed in 1872. The time had 

 arrived when the Society should make strenuous efforts in the 

 direction indicated. By its widespread publications it offered 

 to provincial workers a channel of intercommunication, and 

 was prepared to adequately illustrate all original papers, when 

 necessary, by lithographic plates. The healthy vigour of the 

 Society must be to a large extent sustained by the efforts of 

 those occupying themselves with the more technical aspects 

 of science, but such workers needed coadjutors. The Society 

 should endeavour to add recruits by stimulating a love for 

 scientific pursuits. He had been brought to think deeply on 

 the subject from discussions in the daily papers, originating in 

 some remarks he made at the last meeting of the Society 

 touching the occurrence of certain introduced plants into the 

 colony. Regarding that matter, he read a letter from Mr. 

 E. S. Wlgg to the effect that he had been much amused at the 

 correspondence in the Register re the Leoiitoclon taraxacum. 

 He introduced the seed twenty-five years ago, and gave Mr. 

 Greenham, of Third Creek, some, who raised plants, and from 

 him it had gone from Payneham to Bridgewater. He had 

 grown it in his garden at Xorth Adelaide for twenty-five years, 

 chiefly for his cage-birds, who were very fond of it. He had 

 been rather amused at Mr. McEwin's argument that Professor 

 Tate must have made a mistake, as he " had not seen the plant 

 in the colony." The remarks he (Professor Tate) had made 

 had elicited unrecorded facts from no less than five individual 

 observers, and proved that no large inquiry like that of the 

 distribution of our alien plants could be exhaustively under- 

 taken by one person acting independently. He proposed that 

 observers should be encouraged to correspond with the Society ; 

 facts should be recorded, published, or reserved ; there should 

 be a Committee of Reference, and a Corresponding Secretary 

 might be appointed to undertake duties connected with the 

 reception of facts and specimens. If the scheme w r orked well 

 it might be advisable to add to the Council a Director. Cor- 

 respondents known to have facilities for gathering desiderated 

 knowledge should have their attention particularly directed to 

 the points about which more information was desired. Eor 

 instance, Professor Owen has, for 35 years, been asking for 

 information upon certain points in the generative economy of 

 the Eclinida hystrix ; another question was, whether the porcu- 

 pine ant-eater, inhabiting Kangaroo Island, was that species. 

 The exhibition of specimens and reading of notes referring 

 thereto was one means whereby members might be interested in 



