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Excerpt from Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science: For the Sessions 1854-1855
The Victorian Institute for the advancement of Science, whose Transactions compose the present volume, was founded in July, 1854, for the purpose of bringing together persons whose attention was devoted to scientific observations and particularly to those branches of investigation that were calculated to bear directly on the advancement of the Colony of Victoria. At its meetings many such subjects were entertained observations recorded and dis coveries reported. The collected results are now laid before the Members; the papers which were read to the Institute are published entire, and an abstract of the Proceedings of the meetings is appended. The Victorian Institute was, in June, 1855, amalgamated with the Philosophical Society, and the combined bodies now form the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, whose future Transactions will form a distinct publication.
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