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the last meeting of the Society to request His Excellency, 
Sir HENRY Irving to become Vice-Patron had visited 
the Governor on the 12th of May, when his Excellency 
was pleased to accept the proposed office and to promise 
his best service to the Society. 
The Secretary read a letter from the Government 
Secretary, dated on the 2nd instant, informing the 
Society of the International Exhibition of Colonial objects 
to be held at Amsterdam in 1883 ; a letter was also read 
from Mr. E. D'OLIVEYRA referring to the same subject. 
These communications having been carefully considered 
the Secretary was desired to inform the Government 
Secretary that the members present at this meeting were 
unanimously of opinion that, looking at the intimate 
relations which have so long subsisted between this 
colony and the Netherlands, it is desirable that the 
colony should take part in this Exhibition, and that the 
Society would be willing to undertake the collection and 
forwarding of exhibits, if supplied with adequate funds. 
An extract was read from a letter by Mr. WILLIAM 
Walker to the Secretary, dated 29th April, stating 
that the gift from the late Mr. JOSIAS BOOKER of £50 
to be expended in the purchase of books for the Library, 
had, with Mr. BOOKER'S approval, been applied to the 
purchase of the new edition of the Encyclopaedia 
Britannica now in course of publication, and of an oak 
case in which to keep the volumes, both of which were 
now in the Library. 
On the motion of the President it was unanimously 
resolved that the thanks of the Society be given to Mr. 
BOOKER'S representatives for this very handsome gift. 
