This is surely, then, a time when every effort to rivet attention on the culture of Art and Science should be heartily seconded. A strong desire for knowledge is manifested in the foundation of our University, the establishment of Libraries, and the formation of the numerous societies springing up in our towns, their suburbs, and the more distatnt districts. All this points to prove that the barren aquisition of money does not satisfy the cravings of a people who possess a comprehension beyond that of the method of acquiring it, and that if such an Appetite be once created, that people will demand something more than simple didactic information.

As to the benefits to be derived from the establishment of this institution, they are incalculable, and an attempted enumeration of them would be alike unnecessary and incomplete. What rather must they not be when an account of the natural and physical resources of the country is untouched by any hand we may strictly call our own?—when the different branches which treat of the mineral stores hidden within the earth, the vegetation which luxuriates, the insects, reptiles, animals which move upon its surface, the fish which swim in its waters, the fowls which float in its air, invoke especial systematic notice?—when the annals of atmospheric and climatic changes continue unnoted, and when a faithful narration of the few but eventful years of the occupation of this soil by Europeans is unwritten?

Royal Society of Victoria