"The Eighth Ordinary General Meeting of the session was held at the St. James's Hall, on Tuesday, June 15, 1886 ... The Chairman called upon Sir George Ferguson Bowen, G.C.M.G., to read the paper for the evening on The Federation of the British Empire." Page 283.
Extracted from the Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, volume the seventeenth, 1885-6.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF page 283 (LLMC Digital, viewed April 30 , 2014).