392 ANNOUNCEMENTS. 



2. To bring before the Government the scientific aspects of all matters 



affecting the national welfare, 



3. To promote and extend the application of scientific principles to industrial 



and general purposes, 



4. To promote ssientific education by encouraging the support of Universities 



and other Institutions where the bounds of science are extended, or 

 where new applications of science are devised. 



An Association with aims of this character was certain worthy 

 of support; and Members who desired to come into touch witli 

 it, were recommended, in the first plaoe to appl}^ for the litera- 

 ture, which w^as available on application. 



Attention was also directed to a circular from the promoters of 

 the proposed ''Souscription Universelle pour elever un Monument 

 a Lamarck." The President commended the matter to the notice 

 of the Society; and he stated that Dr. H. G, Chapman, of the 

 University, would hd glad to receive contributions, and forward 

 the same to Paris. 



A letter of thanks from Mrs. Alexander Morton, of Hobart, 

 for kind sympathy was communicated to the Meeting. 



The Donations and Exchanges received since the previous 

 Monthly Meeting, amounting to 14 Vols., 83 Parts or Nos., 14 

 Bulletins, 1 Report, and 28 Pamphlets, received from 54 

 Societies, &c., and 3 Individuals, were laid upon the table. 



NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. David G. Stead recorded that during the month an 

 exceedingly large shoal of great Tunnies had made its appearance 

 on the coast of New South Wales, having been reported from 

 the entrances of both Port Hacking and — a few days later — 

 Port Jackson. Individuals of the shoal averaged about six feet 

 in length. One large example, forwarded to the Department of 

 Fisheries, had been examined by Mr. Stead, who stated that the 

 species was an addition to the New South Wales fish-fauna, and 

 that he had identified it provisionally as 6^er»io maccoyi{CaHte\na.u). 



