Report of the Meetings of the Society. 
Meeting held on 14th July. — Mr. G. H. Hawtayne, 
C.M.G., in the chair. 
There were 18 members present. 
Ele6tions. — Member : Mr. Justice Sheriff. 
Associates : John Mclvor, W. T. McWatt, 
Hackett Bracey. 
Mr. Hawtayne in terms of previous notice moved : 
That a series of evening popular Science lectures be given under 
the auspices of the Society, and that a Committee be appointed to 
make the necessary arrangements. 
The obje6l of the Society being to foster Agriculture 
and Commerce in the colony, he believed, knowing how 
much both are indebted to science, that a man 
employed on a plantation would be none the worse 
planter for knowing something of science, and it would 
certainly be an advantage to the commercial man to be 
acquainted with the scientific history of the^things in 
which he dealt. His idea was to make these le<5tures 
open to the public under certain regulations ; that is to 
!say, he proposed that each member of the Society be 
supplied on application with a certain number of free 
tickets admitting the outside public, but he looked to 
the members themselves for the chief support of the 
scheme. 
The motion was briefly seconded by the Rev. John Fore- 
man and supported by the Hon. B. Howell Jones, and, 
upon its being put to the meeting, was unanimously 
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