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Abstract

ON November 10 last, an important meeting of intercolonial delegates was held at the rooms of the Royal Society, Sydney, for the purpose of forming an Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. There were delegates from all the principal scientific Societies of Australia, and they seem to have had no difficulty in arriving at a decision on the questions they had met to discuss. On the motion of the chairman, Mr. Russell, it was agreed that an association of the scientific Societies of Australasia should be formed under the name of “The Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science.” It was also resolved that the rules of the British Association should be adopted, and that the first meeting of the Australasian Association should be held in Sydney in the first week of September 1888. This date was fixed because it will be the hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the colony of New South Wales.