200 PROCEEDINGS OP THE SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION. 
should be some place for the deposit of the books, papers, 
and other donations belonging to the Association. 
The number of papers of a purely practical character 
published in the “Proceedings” is deserving of some re- 
mark, as showing how far a purely voluntary body, such as 
this Association is, has discharged tbe functions for the 
performance ef which the Corresponding Committee of the 
Society of Arts was instituted with an annual Government 
grant in this Island. We enjoy at present none of the privi- 
leges accorded to Scientific Societies in Australia, Jamaica, 
Mauritius, and other Colonies, no less than in England. 
Tuesday , 1 1 th February , 1868. 
The Hon. Louis Antoine Aime de Verteuil, M.D., Presi- 
dent, in the Chair. 
Eobert Hnaggs, Esq., M.P.C.S.L., was elected a Member. 
Tuesday , 10 th March, 1868. 
Alexander Williams Anderson, Esq., in the Chair. 
The resignation of Dr. E. H. Bakewell as a Member, 
was tendered and accepted. 
The following Donation was announced ■ 
“The Journal of the Society of Arts,” Nos. 780 — 788 ; 
Presented by the Colonial Government . 
The following Eesolution was unanimously carried : — 
That in the opinion of the Scientific Association a public 
Museum should be formed within this island ; and that the 
collection of the Geological Survey, the books, specimens 
and instruments of the late Mr. Criiger and Dr. Leotaud, 
and the shells offered by Governor Keate to the island, 
would form a good nucleus for such a Museum ; and that 
a Memorial be presented to His Excellency the Governor 
praying that such a public institution be formed. 
