44 HENRY DEANE. 



Professor Liversidge informs me that the list of members at the 

 Sydney Session was divided as follows between the different 

 colonies : — New South Wales four hundred and seventeen, South 

 Australia seventy-two, Queensland seventy, Victoria fifty-three, 

 New Zealand forty-three, Tasmania fourteen, Western Australia 

 six, and Fiji three, while Great Britain contributed three, total 

 six hundred and eighty-one. Of these one hundred and three 

 were ladies, derived almost wholly and in proportionate numbers 

 to the male members from New South Wales, Queensland, South 

 Australia and Victoria. 



The number of papers read before the different sections were as 

 follows : — A fifteen, B twelve, C seventeen, D thirty-one, E seven, 

 F twenty-two, G — Economic Science eleven, Agriculture twenty, 

 H thirteen, I five, J twenty, total one hundred and seventy-four. 



Note on Work Done by the Association. — Encouragement of 

 Science. — That the meeting was a success was almost entirely 

 due to the forces within the Association, to the energy of the 

 Permanent Secretary and present President and to the secretaries 

 of the sections, and many other members who willingly aided in 

 the work. Our city authorities afforded no encouragement — a 

 very short-sighted policy, for the arrival in our midst of some 

 few hundred visitors must, to say the least, have a certain effect 

 on the trade and consumption of the place. That the visit of 

 our scientific friends from the other colonies was not made the 

 occasion for a welcome by the city authorities is a fact very much 

 to be regretted, as Sydney now I believe, stands in this remark- 

 able position, that although vaunting herself as the chief city of 

 the Southern Hemisphere, she alone of all cities where the English 

 tongue is spoken, has missed an opportunity of according to 

 science the honour which is her due. In other colonies the 

 Association has met with the greatest hospitality. The proto- 

 type of our Association, the British Association, has met annually 

 for more than sixty years, in one or other of the important cities 

 of the British Isles, with the exception of two occasions when the 

 meeting was held in Canada, and year after year there is an 



