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The first resolution proposed was as follows :— 
“ That the Australasian Botanic and Horticultural Society, and the Horti¬ 
cultural Improvement Society of New South Wales, be, and are hereby declared 
to be dissolved, and that a new association be formed under the title of “ The Aus¬ 
tralian Association for the promotion of Agriculture and Horticulture, and that all 
property, effects, and liabilities of the said two Societies be assumed by the 
association hereby formed.” 
After some discussion it was unanimously agreed that the title of the new asso¬ 
ciation should be The Australian Horticultural and Agricultural Society, with 
this amendment the resolution was agreed to nem. con. 
The second resolution proposed the constitution of the new Society as embodied 
in six fundamental rules. These after some alterations and amendments, which it 
is unnecessary now to recapitulate, were agreed to, in the shape in which they will 
be appended to this Report, in conjunction with the Bye-Laws framed by the 
council. —see appendix B. 
The third resolution— 
“ That his Excellency be requested to undertake the office of President, and that 
this meeting do now proceed to elect two Vice-Presidents, and twenty-four 
Members of Council, pursuant to the foregoing rules,” was unanimously agreed to. 
The Hon. E. Deas Thomson and the Rev. G. E. Turner were elected Vice- 
Presidents without ballot. The meeting then proceeded to ballot for a council of 
twenty-four members, to be chosen from forty-eight names selected by the respec¬ 
tive committees, of each of the pre-existing Societies, in equal proportions. ,,n ' ~ 
following is the result, and the order according to the ballot paper: 
The 
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Mr. 1\ W. Shepherd 
„ W. Beane 
,, M. Guilfoyle 
„ P. L. C. Shepherd 
„ D. Shepherd 
Dr. Houston. 
Mr. E. Creswick 
„ R. Driver, senior 
„ II. R. Webb 
,; W. S. Wall 
,, G. A. Bell 
„ C. Jessop 
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Mr. E. K. Silvester 
Hon. E. Wise 
Mr. J. Baptist 
„ T. S. Mort 
„ 0. Ottley 
„ D. Mclnnis 
„ W. Carron 
„ J. W. 
„ G. W. 
Dr. Bennett 
Mr. J. G. McKean 
Wm. McDonell. 
Waugh 
Pennington 
The opening meeting of the Society, thus brought into existence, was convened 
on the 28th of January, at Clark’s Assembly Rooms, when an initiatory address 
was delivered by the President, and various interesting topies were discussed by 
the members. This initiatory address was published by the daily press, and has 
since been printed and circulated throughout the colony, through the instrumen¬ 
tality of the President; from which circumstance the Council feel justified in 
anticipating much benefit to the Society, and through it to the country generally. 
Subsequent to the opening meeting, five monthly meetings have been held, at 
which the following papers were read, commented upon, and discussed, and (with 
the exception of the two in June, which have been reserved for a monthly 
Magazine in connection with this Society) published in the daily press :—- 
Garrett.— Cultivation of Nohl Kohl. 
Waugh. —-Means best adapted in the present circumstances of the colony, 
for imparting agricultural information. 
Meston.— Harvest operations in Australia. 
Milne.— Articles used for food by the Eeegeeans. 
