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COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT

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MECHANICS' INSTITUTION

SCHOOL OF ARTS,

FOR THE YEAR

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'VILSON & 1\IACICINNON, 78, COLLINS STREET EAS1\

1862.

OFFIOE BEARERS

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Ittcgnnitf;l t Jjnf;ltihtH,Olt ttltl} £)t{Jtm{ ,Of ~d r;I, FOR 'l'HE YEAR 1862.

PATRONS.

HIS EXCELLENCY SIR HENRY BARKLY, It.C.B., GOVERNOR.

HIS BONOR THE CHIEF JUSTICE, SIR W. F. STA WELL.

THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR.

D. C. M'ARTHUR, ESQ.

A. F. A. GREEVES, ESQ.

PRESIDENT.

THOMAS :MOUBRA Y, ESQ.

V I CE.PRES\DENT.

THOMAS ALSTON, ESQ.

TRUSTEES.

HENRY LANGLANDS, ESQ. J. G. FOX TON, ESQ. T. BLACK, M.D .•

TREASURER.

THE HON. D. F. WILKIE, lLD., M.L.C.

AUDITORS.

J. SMITH. 'V. OVERTON.

SECRETARY AND LIBRARIAN.

WALTER THOMPSON.

CURATORS.

REV. A. MORISON-Geology and Mineralogy. GODFREY IIOWITT, M.D., F.R.E.B.S.-Entomology, Botany, and Aborigines.

J. MACADAM, M.D.-Chemical and Philosophical Department.

R. EADES, M.D.-Antiquarian and Mi.scellaneous Department.

W. S. HEARN, A.M., LL.D.-Fine Arts.

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.

BALMAIN, T. C.

BURT'!', J. G.

GIBB8, EDWARD M.

GREEVES, A. F. A.

MUSSON, J. RINTEL, REV. M. ROLLINGS, ,V.

BARWICK, J. EDWARDS, J. GILLBEE, W., M.R.O.S.E.

LISTON, J. LUSH JOHN. MURRAY, J. M.D.

TliOMSON, J.

REPORT 011

TIIE COi\11IITTEE OF nIA.Nl\GE~lENTj

OF THE

MELEO""(JRNE

MECHANICS' INSTITUTION AND SOHOOL OF ARTS,

FOR THE '"YEA.R 1861..

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Your committee in accordance with the resolution of the general Ineeting held Septernber last, 11lade a second attenlpt to raise funds for the erection of a large hall and other accomlnodation for the purposes of the Institution. They have not however been able to make any progress, and the failure of these efforts, indicative of a 'want of synlpathy with the design on the part of the public, and also the construction in this city of several places suitable for large asselnblages, lead your committee to conclude that it is not expedient at present to prosecute the undertaking, and that it will be more judicious to confine our efforts, at least for SOl11e time to come, more strictly to the purposes for 'which the Institution ,vas originated.

It is ilnportant to observe how far its ostensible objects as an educational establishlnent fur the mechanic cla~;s of the people, and a School of Arts, have been attained. The experience of nearly twenty­three years does not enable your cOll1mittee to say n10re than that notwithstanding the very nloderate charges of subscription, it has . not been 1nore unsuccessful in realizing those objects than the bulk of silnilar institutions, here and elsevvhere.

The Lectures, 1nany of theln by gentlelllen of unq llestionable com­petency, have only occasionally and partially excited the interest of the public. The classes, in various branches of knowledge which under the guidance of teachers of acknowledged eminence at one period pronlised to beco111e a 1110St valuable feature of the Institution, have gradually dwindled a·way.

Tt is sCltrcely to be expected that gentleUlell of first rate ability will undertake coutinuous courses of lectures and classes, on literar.v ~tlld scientific subjects, without a guarantee of adequate professional remuneration; and it is not to be expected that a community like ours will be satisfied with any course of instruction which is not

first rate. Your committee can only regret that the state of the finances of the Institution has precluded them, and so far as they elm judge prevented their predecessors, from aclopting efficient measures for the

nlaintenance of these depttrtnlents. The Museum depltrtment, which is still nominally continued as a

portion of the Institution, is, and has been for several years, actually in abeyltllce. There is, however, a considerable collection of articles and specimens, some of them of great value, relating to Natural H isto ry, Ethnology, Aboriginal productions, Antiquities, N umisma­tics, and the Fine Arts, which it seems to yonl' committee is more than a matter of regret that it should remain entirely useless to the public, and liable from want of neeclful attention to be lost.

To properly arrange and exhibit this collection in a suitable apart-ment would require a large outlay, and to have it efficiently taken care of a fnrther constant expenditure, and as the means of doing this do not seem t.o be within the ability of the Institution for a very considera\Jle time at least, your committee recommend that thecol­lection after being duly catalogued should be deposited on loan in the National Museum, subject to being restored to the Institution on demand at any time. Thus would the articles be preserved and become useful for the purposes of science, and at the same time the intention of the donors be substantially fulfilled.

The library, and particularly the reading room, seem to be the departments most constantly made use of. In the former the number of members who borrowed books was indeed somewhat less than the preceding year, but the number of volumes read was considerably gTeater. And it is satisfactory to observe that the proportion of works of science and literature perused by members, !IS distinguished from works of fiction, indicates a taste for the former class which we

shall do well to pronlote. The number of vols. in the library is np,vards of 8,000. The number of members who borrowed books was 443 in 1860,

and 385 in 1R61. The number of volumes reacl in these years was

20,274 and 21,144 respectively. The number of Volumes and Magazines in circulation was, during ~

the years-

\ 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861

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. :M agazines... _. 1,010 2,075 2,l17 2,038 3,443 4,523 , -

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The following taule gives the circulation of volumes dnring the Imst year, according to the classification in the Libmry :-

Agriculture, Commerce, and Statistics ... ... ... ... lVIechanics, 1\1athema.tical Sciences, Architecture, Engineering,

and Useful Arts . .. ... . .. . .. .., ... Biography, Speeches, and Correspondence .o.

Classics and Philology... ... ... ...

Fine Arts ", . · Geography, Voyages, Travels, and Descriptive vVol'ks History and Historical lVIemoirs ... ... . .. Jurisprudence and Legislature .. . Medical Science and Cheluistry .. . Miscellaneous and Oollecti ve vV O1'ks N atul'al History and Botany ...

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... Works of Fiction.. . .. . .' ... IVlusic ... . .. Periodical Literature . · Philosophy and General Science Poetry and the Dralua

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Politics . . Religious and Ecclesiastical vVorks

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136 1,276

143 57

1,149 2,687

47 55

1,526 77

11,355 41

1,503 338 437 1:19 128

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The Reading :0.0111 is cOl~stantly well attended by members, and the number of VISItors admItted under rule 10 was 203 the number in the previous ~ear being 140. Your committee pro~ose, so soon as. the funds wI~l allo":,, to introduce gas-ventilators, and against WInter a stove, With a VIew to greater cOlnfort as well as econon1Y· .

The Lectures eluring the year cOlnprised the following subjects ~-"'[he Signs of the rrimes." DAVID BLAIR, 'EsQ. " rrOWll and Gown." l\ICHARD BIRNIE ESQ.

"Garibaldi." R. H. HORNI~, ESQ. ' " Bu]wer's Writings." BICH_-\.RD BIRNIE, ESQ. " An Evening with l)ickwick. n

JAMES SMITH, ESQ. " A Plea for Ghosts." DAVID BLAIR, ESQ. " Self Culture." REV. vV. I-IENDERsoN.

" Sleep, Dreams, &c." DR. OWENS. c: political Econoluy." REV. vV. R. FLETCHER, .JVLA. " A Course on the :M.ieroscope." T. S. RALPlI, ESQ.

To these gentlemen your committee on behalf of the Instituti<'lD desire to record the sincerest thanks for their kind exertions.

T,yo concerts, one by the Orpheus Union, and one by the 1\1 usic Classes of the Institution, conducted by G. L. Allan, Esq., were weil attended a~d gave great satisfaction.

A conversazione was held on the 5th of June, which was attended by a very large ~onconrse ?f mem?ers and friends, who appeared thoroughly to enJoy the SOCIal reumon, and to appreciate the several objects of interest and scientific experiments placed before them; and a general desire appeared to prevail for a continuance of such

social gatherings. ' The attent.ion of yoU!' committee has been particularly turned to

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financial affairs of the IDstitution; not only £ron1 fiuding that their action has been so 111uch han1pered for ,vant of 1l1eanS, but also that their predecessors had been siInilarly enlbarassec1, although for several years a large revenue has been received, a favourable report has been annually made of the state of the funds, and an apparent .. balanc,e has been announced fronl the proceeding to the succeeding year.

The 111elllbers were illfol'lned in the annual report for the year 1856, that by Ineans of the Legislative Grant (negociated \vith Governlnent in exchange for land given to the Institution) of £5,000, that all the debts of the Institution due Dec. 31, 1856, were paid ofi', and that the whole outstanding liabilities at that tillle alnounted to only £70 9s. lOd., at V\rhich tinle it ,vas reported in the Treasurer's account that there was a balance in hand of £ 84 15 s. 4d. *

Each succeeding year in like nlanner reports a balance in hand, yet, the Treasurer's account for the year 1858, shows that, although a balance was reported fronl the year 1857 of £80 58. ld"

. there were liabilities belonging to 1857 still unpaid, of ordinary expenditure to the al110unt of £251 15s. lId.

And it further appears that a SUln of £59 17 s. 1 d., for ,york done in 1859, ,vas paid out of the revenue of 1861.

Your C01TIlnittee subn1it that such a system of presenting the annual accounts is· erroneous and calculated to lead the Inembers to require their COlnnlittee of ~1anagelnent to incur expenditure which they would other,vise avoid.

Your cOllllnittee therefore recolll111end that in future not only an account current of the receipts and expenditure of the Treasurer sho:uld be sublllittecl at the annual 1neeting; but that also along with an estilnate of the probable revenue and expenditure for the ensuing year, there should be furnished a ba1ance sheet of the actual financial condition of the Institution on the last clay of the year, ,vhich three clocunlents should be printed for the use of menlbers at each annuallneeting.

Such an account Inade up to the 31st Dec., 1861, your comll1ittee

* The Report for the year en~ling December 31st 1857 (page 4), states the liabilities at the cnd of that year to be about £200, against which there was a balance in the

bank of £80. The Report f?r the yeur 1858 states (p,age tIt), " '1'h,o re.maining liabil~ties will no,~

exceed £50 whIle the balance at the credlt or the InstIt.utlOl1 at the bank 18 £164 14s .. In reality there was a balance against the Institution of about £85. (Secretary's

minutes) , . The Ueport for the year 1859 states (page 1) that at the beglunmg of the year

the Instit.ution was totally free from debt, and submits "1.'he Treasurer's balance sheet to December 31) 185'9, shewing a balance to the credit of the Illstit~ttio'ilJ in the bank of £107 28. 3d., while t.hc outstanding liabilities due January 1860, would be about £150, which sum includes the architect's commission on the amount of the contractor's account, viz., £34." . .. " .

The Ueport for the year 1860 states that "The total outstandmg, lIabIlItIes ar~ £581 9a. Id," (page 4) and the Treasurer's account shows a bnlallce III the bank of £79 14s. 2c1. (page 0.)

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no'v present in the appendix to this report fron1 which Inelnbers "rill learn that on the first day of the present year 1862, the institution ,vas in debt to the anlount of £609 14s. 2d., of which SUln con­siderably l110re than half belongs to the ordinary current expenditure for carrying on the Institution .during the year 1861.

The deposit of one pound for melnbers in order to secure the due return of books in propel' condition and to secure the fines for their unreasonable detention has been found to work so 'well that your C0111nlittee' earnestly reconlm~nd its continuance. But the amount of deposits is clearly as lnuch a liability, to be entered accordingly, as the anlount of fines due is an asset of the institution.

A table sho,ving the alnount of deposits received and paid each year; and the present state of this fL1nd will be found in the appendix. The suspension of the entrance fee reconlnlended as an eXperill1ent in last year's report has been found to work well. The nUlnber of new nlelnbers who joined the Institution in the year 1859 was 144, and in the year 1860,118; but last year (1861), the l1Un1 ber rose up to 284.

It Inay be nlentioned that the nunlber of melllbel's in each of those years who had been 111en1bers the previous year was l'espec-' tively 36~, 3'70, 351. rrhe' nunlber of annual ll1embel's at the close of each year was 506, 488, and 635.

rrhere are 128 Life 11lelnbers. It will thus be seen that the increase in the nunlb er of members

nl0re than compensates for the loss of the entrance fee, and although your cOlnmittee do not think that the tinle has conle to say what may be the pennanent effect of nlembers ceasing to having a fixed interest in the institution; yet they feel justified in recom111ending that the suspension should be continued for another year.

Melllbers will ascertain fronl the accounts that with an ordinary income of more than £1228, only £24 8s. 6d. has been available for your conlnlittee during their year of office, for the purchase of books for the library; and that £158 5s. 5d., was expended for the purchase of newspaper and other periodicals for the reading 1"00111. This expenditure, so disproportionate, considering the professed objects of the Institution, and so inadequate altogether for the wants of the library, your C0111nlittee think should be rectified, and have accordingly apportioned for the purchase of books (including binding and repairs) the Slun of £250 for the year 1862. .

There is in the library a series of newspapers and Government Gazettes from the early days of the colony. rrhey are all scarce, and one of theIn, nall1ely, a cOlnplete set of the Port Phillip ()ove1'nrnettt Gazette (prior to the separation), is not kno\vn to be extant elsewhere. Persons, not being Inembers, occasionally apply to inspect these files j

and a practice, your cOlnlnittee find, has prevailed of allo\ving their inspection on payluent of a snwll fee which is included in the itelu "l)oncttiollS." ltis desirable that this practice should either be sanctioned

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or disallowed. It may be questioned whethel' persons not mel11bers of the Institution should be allowed to use its property. In addition to 111ere ,vear and tear, it n1ust be renlel11bered that the presence of an officer of the Institution is indispensable; for the experience of other Institutions, as well as ours, is, that persons ,vill occasionally cut out paragraphs which concern thelu to save the trouble of copying. On the whole, however, your comn1ittee recomn1end that such access be sanctioned subject to a fee for each scarch, but that on no account should any sllch publication be tak~n out of the library except in custody of the secretary or librarian and on payulent of a suitable

fee. Your COlunlittee, with a vie'\v to greater public convenience have al-

tered and enlarged theperiods dnringwhich the Library is open, viz :-9 a.m. to 2 p.m. } { 9 a.ln. to 12 noon 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. In lieu of 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. 7 p.ll. to 9 p m. 7 p.m.~ to 9 p.m.

Your cOlnmittee have the pleasure to report that they are prepared with arrangenlents to carry out their views as "vill .be seen in the estinlates for the cnrrent year, 'which they now subn1it. The expenses of nlanagenlent, salarie~, fnel, lighting, and rates 'will be largely reduced. They propose to payoff during the year, if possible, the balance of the debt due to the Bank of New South Wales. They propose to set apart a sufficient Slun each future year, until the balance of debt, handed down frOl11 fonner years, with 'which the present year C0111-mencec1, is entirely adjusted, and they reconllnend that thereafter the revenue of each particular. year, be nlade the expenditure of that year. They recollnnend that a separate account be illlnlediately opened of the "Deposit account," cllarging against each iteHl any arrears of subscriptions and fines, the amount to be regularly brought up as part of the annual balance sheet. As already n1entioned they propose that such balance sheet to the last day of the year, together with the Treasurer's account of receipts and expenditure for the year preceding, and along with the Comnlittee's estilnates in detail for the ensuing year, be prepared and printed for the use of Ineinbers at each annual111eeting.

Lastly, your cOlnn1ittee would point out the expediency of estab-lishing a reserve or sustentatiol1 fund. A casual inspection of the premises ,vill sho\v, that at no distant date a considerable alnount will be required for indispensable repairs, independent of interior cleansings and in1proveluents.

In conclusion, your COlll111ittee by no means desire to convey a desponding ilnpression as to the affairs of the institution.

fl'hey see no difficulties 'which ordinary prudence ll1ay not over­COlne, and they think that the best way to promote' a spirit of prudence is 111inutely to exall1ine our financial state and to place the results unreservedly before you.

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tered andenlarged theperiods duringwhich the Library is open, viz :-9 a.m. to 2 p.m. } { 9 a.m. to 12 noon 4 p.m. to 6 p.nl. In lieu of 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. 7 p.1l1. to 9 pm. 7 p.lll.# to 9 p.m.

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Lastly, your committee would point out the expediency of estab-lishing a reserve or sustentation fund. A casual inspection of the premises will show, that at no distant date a considerable alnount will be required for indispensable repairs, independent of interior cleansings and hnprovelnents.

In conclusion, your COlll111ittee by no means desire to convey a desponding ilnpression as to the affairs of the institution.

'rhey see no difficulties 'which ordinary prudence l1lay not over­COll1e, and they think that the best way to promote' a spirit of prudence is Ininutely to exa111ine our financial state and to place the results unreservedly before you. .

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LIABILrrIES.

To Bank Ne,v South Wales, being balance of £500, borro,ved in September, 1-859, on the joint accep­tance of the Trustees of the Institution, towards paying the Contractors for making Alterations in the Library and

Reading Room, the new Commitee Room and the Secretary's Residence

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THE INSTITUTION IN ACCOUNT WITH MEMBERS FOR LIBRARY DEPOSITS.

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To Amount of Deposits received from £ s. d. By Amount of Deposits returned to £ s. d.

~fem bel'S, as sho,vn in Trea- l\1:em bers, as shown in the

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1859 98 0 0

" " " 1860 82 0 0 " " "

1860 68 0 0

)1 " " 1861 134 0 0 " "

1861 89 0 0

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scriptions from April, 1855, t--'

to Dec., 31st, 1860 289 16 2 Fines and Arrears of Sub-

scriptions, from 1st J an.,.to 31st Dec., 1861 ... 25 17 6

315 13 8 Balance carrried forward 186 6 4

£1035 0 0 11

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'1'0 Balance brought forward ••• ... £186 6 4

DAVID E. WILKIE, T1'easurer.

Audited and found correct, J an uary, 1862.

"VILLIAM OVERTON, } Auditors.

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To Balance ... ... £85 6 0

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31sT DE CEl\1:BER, 1859 .

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31sT DECEMBER, 1860.

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