ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. Vll. 



kindly to be good enough to direct the attention of the members of your 

 honoured Society to the movement. The Consular instructions are also to 

 give any local movement which might be started, all possible assistance, 

 and I need hardly say, that any information or help I can give will be 

 given with very great pleasure. 



I have etc., 



L. W. Marcker, Consul. 

 Messrs. J. H. Maiden and G-. H. Knibbs, Hon. Secretaries, 

 Royal Society of N. S. Wales. 



Letters were received from Mr. 0. O. Burge, m. inst. c.b., 

 acknowledging receipt of copy of resolution carried at the 

 previous Council meeting. Also tendering his resignation 

 as a member of the Society owing to his approaching 

 departure for good from Australia. 



The Chairman made the following announcements : — 

 1. The British Science Guild. — It has been a frequent 

 subject of comment that, although the contribution of this 

 country to the progress of science has been second to that 

 of no other nation, the English people do not manifest that 

 interest in, and belief in the powers of science, which are 

 noticeable among the peoples of the Continent, or of 

 America. In spite of the efforts of many years, the scien- 

 tific spirit, essential to all true progress, is still too rare, 

 and, indeed, is often sadly lacking in some of those who are 

 responsible for the proper conduct of many of the nation's 

 activities. It is with the view of attempting to remedy 

 this evil, and to bring home to all classes the necessity of 

 applying scientific treatment to affairs of all kinds, that 

 the proposal is made to bring together those convinced of 

 this necessity by founding " The British Science Guild." 

 The objects and organization of the Guild, which will be 

 entirely disconnected from party politics, are as follows : — 

 (1) To bring together as members of the Guild all those 

 throughout the Empire interested in science and scientific 

 method, in order, by joint action, to convince the people, 

 by means of publications and meetings, of the necessity of 



