l68 TlMEHRl. 
Meeting held 14th February. — The Honourable B. 
Howell Jones, President; in the chair. 
Eleaions— Members : F. W. Elliott ; W. M. Campbell ; 
T. Kelly, M.D. 
Associates : H. S. Cox; G. T. Bom; G. 
Pym ; S. A. Hill ; E. A. Pairaudeau ; W. D. Calder. 
The Forestry Exhibition. — It was proposed by the 
President and unanimously carried, that the hon. Wm. 
Russell should be asked to represent the colony at the 
Forestry Exhibition to be held in Edinburgh this year. 
Sale of Useless Books, et al. — Mr. Nind brought for- 
ward the motion of which he had given notice : — 
That the Book Committee examine the condition of books in the 
Library at least twice a year, and be authorised to offer for sale at 
public auction or otherwise, any books, magazines, pamphlets &c, 
which they decide it is undesirable to retain in the Library, and that the 
fund formed by these periodical sales be devoted to the binding of such 
magazines, &c, as the said Committee shall think fit, to the replacing 
of any damaged books of value, and to the purchase of works bearing 
On the history of the colony, or in any way connected with it. 
He referred to the practice of allowing valuable and 
practical periodicals which ought to be bound in volumes 
and retained as books of reference, to be given away as 
literature no longer of any interest to the Society, a maga- 
zine like the Sugar Cane being sent to the Hospital and 
Sailors' Home to amuse the inmates. On the other hand 
there were many books on the shelves which the Society 
should try to dispose of, and out of the money obtained 
from the sale of such books and from the sale of ephem- 
eral periodicals, a fund could be formed for the binding 
of periodicals worth keeping and for replacing damaged 
books. 
The motion was supported and adopted, it being 
