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of a mere literary institute or circulating library. With 
its correspondents abroad, its museum here, and its 
local exhibitions to look after, he did not believe the 
Society was ever going to efface itself in this colony. 
Having been away from the colony he did not know 
what the Society had been doing lately until yester- 
day, when he was pleased to learn that Lord Gor- 
manston had been asked to become Vice-Patron of 
the Society and glad to find that he had accepted 
the office. He would propose that some additions 
should be made to the premises of the Society and 
some deficiences supplied ; that some accommodation for 
ladies be provided, and some alterations made in the 
Rules to allow Lady Members to attend the Meetings. 
He would be glad to see this Society made a centre, from 
which might be established branches in the sister coun- 
ties and in the villages. He noticed that Mr. DAVIS had 
proposed the election of a Commercial Committee, which 
he considered to be a very good idea on the whole only 
depending on business gentlemen to work it out. It 
would be in the memory of all that Mr. Hawtayne had 
carried a motion in favour of Le6tures, which he hoped 
might be put in a workable form shortly. In these and 
other proposals which he intended to lay before them 
from time to time, he hoped to obtain their approval and 
co-operation. 
The Rev. Canon Castell, through Mr. T. Daly, pre- 
sented a flower spike of an Orchid and asked for its 
name if it could be identified. The Assistant Secretary 
recognised it as Coryanthes macrantha, and explained 
the wonderful contrivances by which it is fertilized. 
The President moved that a vote of thanks be given to 
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