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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25th, 1893. '^-<T ^ ^ 



The President, Professor David, B.A., F.G.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. W. J. Stewart McKay, B.Sc, M.B., Ch.M., College Street, 

 was elected a Member of the Society. 



The following extract of a letter from Sir Joseph Hooker was 

 communicated hy Baron von Mueller, as being of very great 

 interest to local botanists, since the name of Sir Joseph Banks 

 ■svill ever be identified with the vegetation of Botany Bay : — 



"I forget whether I informed you that I have at last got hold 

 of Banks' Journal of Cook's First Voyage, or rather of my aunt's 

 (Miss Turner's) copy of it, made when all Banks' correspondence 

 was entrusted to my grandfather for writing a Life of Banks 

 (see 'Nature,' xlviii. 195, June 29, 1893). The bulk of it equals 

 that of Cook's Journal just published by Capt. Wharton. I am 

 having a copy made in the hope of getting a publisher for it. 

 It is most interesting and full of curious matter. Banks was a 

 wonderful man." 



DONATIONS. 



" Royal Microscopical Society — Journal, 1893." Part 4. From 

 the Society. 



" Bombay Natural History Society — Journal." Yol. vii. (1892), 

 No. 5. From the Society. 



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