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mentary elections, Mr. Acheson moved, and Mr. Sizar Elliott 



seconded, " That this meeting be adjourned until the 31st instant." 



This was put to the Meeting by the Chairman, and carried unani- 

 mously. 



31st August, 1859. 

 Adjourned Ordinary Meeting. 



The President, Dr. Mueller, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the two previous Meetings were read and con- 

 firmed. The names of live gentlemen as candidates for Ordinary 

 Membership were read, to be balloted for at the ensuing Ordinary 

 meeting. 



The following gentlemen were duly elected Members of the Insti- 

 tute : — 



Joseph A. J. Macgregor, Esq., Solicitor, Swanston-street. 



Edward Bradshaw, Esq., Town Clerk, St. Kilda. 



James Dell, Esq., Assistant Engineer, Sewerage and Water 



Commission. 

 Henry Pares V-enables, Esq., B.A., Oxon, Sub-Inspector National 



Schools. 

 Henry Edward Watts, Esq., " Argus" office. 

 His Majesty, King Frederick VII., of Denmark, was elected an 

 Honorary Member of the Institute. 

 The Secretary laid upon the table " Barometric Curves for Janu- 

 ary, February, and March," presented by the Rev. William Scott, 

 Astronomer, Sydney Observatory, New South Wales. 



Dr. Macadam gave notice of motion for the next Ordinary Meeting 

 of the Institute — " That owing to the difficulty and labor attached 

 to the drawing-up of a report on the resources of the colony, for the 

 Royal Society of Arts, it is desirable to increase the committee 

 already formed by the addition of the names of the following 

 gentlemen : — 



Francis Bell, Esq., C.E. 



Ludwig Becker, Esq. 



R. H. Bland, Esq. 



R. J. L. Ellery, Esq., Director, Observatory, Williamstown. 



J. G. Knight, Esq., Architect, Parliament Houses. 



C. W. Ligar, Esq., Surveyor General. 



Samuel McGowan, Esq., Superintendent of Electric Telegraphs. 



Captain Pasley, R.E. 



Captain Ross, R.N. 



Professor Neumayer, Director of the Magnetic Observatory, 



Flagstaff H :, l. 

 And Professor Irving, to act as Honorary Secretary. 



