MEETING OE THE GENERAL COUNCIL 
Friday, 18th. January, 1895. 
EXTRACTS FROM THE MINUTES. 
The President, Hon. A. C. Gregory, C.M.G., occupied the chair, 
and was supported on the platform by His Excellency Sir Henry W. 
Norman, Vice-President ; Professor Liversidge, Permanent Secretary; 
and Mr. John Shirley, General Secretary. 
Mr. Shirley read the report of the Recommendation Committee, 
as follows : — 
1. That the Committee for the investigation of the thermo- 
dynamics of the voltaic coll be reappointed without a grant. 
2. That the report of the Seismological Committee be printed, 
and that the Committee be reappointed, and allowed a grant of £10 
towards the cost of the erection at Timaru of the instruments 
presented by Dr. von Kebeur-Pasehwitz. 
3. On the report of Section B, Chemistry, it is recommended that 
one of the Vice-Presidents of that section be a pharmaceutical chemist. 
4. This Committee does not recommend the proposed application 
to the (Queensland) Government for the extension of the Bellcnden- 
Ker Reserve. 
5. This Committee recommends, on the report of Section D, that 
the following be a committee: — Messrs. E. M. Bailey, E.L.S. ; 
R. L. Jack, F.G.S. ; A. Gibb Maitland, A. Meston, C. W. De Vis, 
and H. Tryon— to investigate the geology, land flora, land fauna, and 
natural resources generally of the islands and islets of the Great 
Barrier Reef. 
6. On the report of Section D, that the New Zealand Government 
be asked to set apart Stephens Island, Cook Strait, as a reserve for 
the Tuatara lizard. 
7. On the report of Section C, that the Committee for the 
investigation of glacial deposits in Australasia be Messrs. Hutton, 
R. L. Jack, R. Tate, R. M. Johnstone, T. W. E. David (secretary), 
G. Sweet, J. Stirling, W. llowchin, E. G. Hogg, E. J. Dunn, 
A. Montgomery, and E. E. Pittman. 
8. This Committeo does not recommend for action the joint 
reports of Sections G and J , or the separate report of Section G, for 
the division of the last mimed section into (a) Economic and Political 
Science, and (b) Agriculture. 
9. On the report of Section II, that a committee, consisting of 
Messrs. II. C. Stanley, A. B. Brady, Thomas Park or, Henry Moncrieff, 
James Emeham, and Professors Warren and Kernot, be appointed to 
inquire into the habits of the teredo, and the best means of preserving 
timber or structures subject to the action of tidal waters. 
10. This Committee recommends that the resolutions from Sec- 
tion I, re Infectious Diseases (Notification) Act, Eederal Quarantine, 
and Tuberculosis, be deferred for consideration at the next session of 
the Association. 
