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PROCEEDINGS OF THE VICTORIA INSTITUTE. 
Association that a Memorial should be presented to the Governor 
for the establishment of a public museum. A Memorial was 
accordingly drawn up, and it was duly presented to the Governor 
by a deputation consisting of Dr. de Verteuil and Dr. Mitchell, 
Members of the Association. At the final meeting of the 
representatives of the Association, which took place in 1887 at 
the Public Library, it was decided that the property of the 
Association then in deposit at the Library, should be handed 
over to the Victoria Institute so soon as the latter should come 
into active being. We have now to report that the books 
formerly belonging to the Scientific Association, have been duly 
handed over as directed by this bequest, and are now deposited at 
the Museum as public property. They thus form the nucleus and 
commencement of a scientific library. A library of this sort is 
s much required.* There are a few other books in deposit at the 
Museum, but these are too limited in number and scope to supply 
the requirements. It would be desirable if it could be arranged 
for that the books obtained from Dr. Leotaud’s library should be 
deposited at the Museum, and these would require some expendi- 
ture for rebinding. A very favourable offer was made some 
time ago of a collection of scientific works worth more that .£600, 
together with a collection of shells and other zoological and 
geological objects, worth at least as much more, for the value of 
the books alone, and we hope that this collection may yet be 
secured. 
At the first meeting of the Committee of the Institute, held 
on the 15th July, 1887, the Chairman (S. H. Gatty, Attorney- 
General) by authority and direction of the Governor, “opened 
“ the meeting with some remarks as to the object with which 
“ the Committee had been nominated, and as to the necessity 
“ that existed for an institution such as it was proposed to 
* Mr. Alexander Miller, a member of the Committee, has been good 
enough to deposit in the library for the use of Members, a copy of the 
Encyclopedia Britanica 
