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Professor McCoy, Director of Museums 



Thomas Skilling, Esq., Director of the Government Model Farm 



George Holmes, Esq. 



The Eev. John I. Bleasdale 



A. K. Smith, Esq., C.E. 



Dr. MacGillivray 



Lieut. Amsinck. 



The Secretary then read the following : — 

 "Government Offices, 



"Melbourne, 5th May, 1859. 

 "Sir, 



"I am directed by the Governor to enclose a copy of 

 a letter from the Secretary to the Society of Arts, which has been 

 forwarded to His Excellency by the Right Honorable the Secretary 

 of State for the Colonies, in a despatch pointing out the expediency 

 of discriminating accurate statements of the resources of the colonies, 

 and of the bearing of such resources upon trade ; and I am desired 

 to state that His Excellency will be happy to receive your co-opera- 

 tion in the matter. 



"I have the honor to be, Sir, 



" Your obedient humble servant, 



"O. F. Timins, Private Secretary. 

 "The President of the Philosophical Institute, &c." 



"Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, 

 and Commerce, 

 "Adelphi, London, W.C., 



"January 1st, 1859. 

 "My Lord, 



"I am directed by the Council of the Society of 

 Arts to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 29th July, and 

 to request that your Lordship will thank Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, 

 on the part of the Society, for the ready assent he has given to the 

 request contained in my former letter, that he would be good enough 

 to transmit to the Governors of the several British colonies the pro- 

 posals which have been under consideration, to make use of the 

 Society to diffuse information as to the resources and jn-oducts of the 

 several British colonies. 



"The Council consider that the best measures for attaining the 

 object they have in view will be the following: — 



"1. That such colonies as consider that the meetings and proceed- 

 ings of the Society of Arts would at all serve to give publicity to 

 their resources, and tend to increase the demand for their produc- 

 tions, should select some competent person, or existing society in the 

 colony, to frame a complete statement of the points upon which it 



