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is considered that the public of the mother-country are not suffi- 

 ciently informed. 



"2. That the individual or public body thus selected should at 

 once be put in direct communication with the Society of Arts. . 



" 3. That the person or persons thus chosen should also designate, 

 and obtain the consent of, some well-informed person in this country, 

 either himself to read, at an evening meeting of the Society, the 

 paper prepared in the colony, or to confer with the Council as to the 

 best method of securing their common objects. 



"Further proceedings may be later indicated, or may arise from 

 the steps proposed. 



"Should any colony consider that a different course of proceeding 

 would better suit the peculiar circumstances of that colony, the 

 Society of Arts will be quite prepared to receive such suggestions. 

 "I have the honor to be, my Lord, 



"Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, 



(Signed) "P. Le Neve Foster, Secretary. 

 "To the Earl of Carnarvon, &c, &c, &c, 



"Her Majesty's under Secretary of State for the Colonies." 



Sizar Elliott, Esq., moved, "That the gentlemen whose names had 

 been read, be a Committee to carry out the objects contemplated." 



This was seconded by E. Fitzgibbon, Esq., and carried. — For 

 Report of this Committee vide Appendix.] 



Dr. Becker brought forward the motion standing in his name, 

 seconded by Edwin Jones, Esq. 



Dr. Macadam moved, as an amendment, "That the Institute 

 communicate with the 'Sewerage and Water Commission' which 

 was already appointed by the Government to inquire into the subject 

 of the motion." 



This was seconded by Lieut. Amsinck. 



A discussion ensued, in which the Hon. John Hood, M.L.C., Dr. 

 Mackenna, E. Fitzgibbon, Esq., the Rev. Mr. Higginson, and others 

 took part. 



The original motion was carried. 



The Secretary read a notice of motion by the Rev. C. P. M. 

 Bardin, to the following effect : — " That the Council be requested 

 to furnish at the next Ordinary Meeting a report of the proceedings 

 taken by it with respect to the erection of a Philosophical Hall, 

 and that until this report be furnished, and receive the approval of 

 the members of the Institute, it is considered advisable that further 

 action in carrying out the plans adopted by the Council be suspended." 



The Secretary communicated to the Society two papers by Pedro 

 Nisser, Esq., entitled as follows : — 1. " On some Domesticated Ani- 

 mals of South America which would be useful in Victoria." — [Vide 

 "Transactions."] 2. " On the First Technical Use of Gold by 

 the Aborigines of South America, with a description of the Indian 



